Radiation therapy biomarkers

ABSTRACT

Materials and methods related to using biomarkers for prediction of response to radiation therapy.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application claims benefit of priority from U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 61/166,493, filed on Apr. 3, 2009.

STATEMENT AS TO FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH

This invention was made with government support under grant no. GM061388, awarded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. The government has certain rights in the invention.

TECHNICAL FIELD

This document relates to biomarkers for prediction of response to therapy, and more particularly to biomarkers that can be used to predict whether a subject will respond to radiation therapy.

BACKGROUND

Radiation is widely used to treat a variety of cancers. For some tumor types, radiation can be the most important element in therapy. Response to radiation varies widely, however. In addition, severe side effects (e.g., skin lesions, pulmonary fibrosis, or esophagitis, depending on the organ(s) being treated) can result from radiation treatment.

SUMMARY

This document is based in part on the discovery that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) may be useful as biomarkers to predict a subject's response to radiation therapy. Many factors can contribute to variation in response to radiation therapy, including genetic variation. A subject's response to radiation may be at least partially inherited. If a subject is determined to have biomarkers indicating that radiation treatment is likely to be effective, the treatment may be used. Conversely, if a subject's biomarker analysis indicates that radiation treatment is not likely to be effective, the subject can be spared the potentially adverse side effects of radiation, and other avenues of treatment can be attempted.

In one aspect, this document features an in vitro method for predicting the effectiveness of radiation therapy in a subject, comprising (a) providing a biological sample from the subject; (b) assaying the biological sample to determine whether it comprises a radiation therapy signature; and (c) classifying the subject as having a greater likelihood of responding to radiation therapy if the signature is present in the biological sample, and classifying the subject as having a lesser likelihood of responding to radiation therapy if the signature is not present in the biological sample. The method can further comprise communicating to a medical professional information regarding whether or not the signature is present in the biological sample. The method can further comprise communicating to a medical professional information indicating that the presence of the signature correlates with effectiveness of radiation therapy. The radiation therapy signature can comprise one or more markers selected from the group consisting of rs7000734, rs16885294, rs1561715, rs1610110, rs2859631, rs12569163, rs16889440, rs7554126, rs4742269, rs7591064, rs11250464, rs1853665, rs4392868, rs17598306, rs1471356, and rs4554799. The radiation therapy signature can comprise one or more markers selected from the group consisting of rs4392868, rs297550, rs1946944, rs12548426, rs1610110, rs1561715, rs1561714, rs4734298, rs7000734, and rs212551. The radiation therapy signature can comprise one or more markers selected from the group consisting of rs1610110, rs1561715, rs1561714, rs4392868, rs7000734, and rs212551. The radiation therapy signature can comprise one or more markers selected from the group consisting of rs6863920, rs6449478, rs2409791, rs4326096, rs206789, and rs286158. The radiation therapy signature can comprise one or more markers selected from the group consisting of rs4463400, rs6578080, rs4397386, rs7387053, rs4487737, rs13275618, rs6578083, rs7814976, rs7841539, rs6578084, and rs9324519. The radiation therapy signature can comprise one or more markers selected from the group consisting of rs12553351 and rs4742269. The radiation therapy signature can comprise rs1610110, rs1561715, or rs7000734.

In another aspect, this document features an in vitro method for determining a dose of radiation for administration to a subject, comprising (a) providing a biological sample from the subject; (b) assaying the biological sample to determine whether it comprises a radiation therapy signature; and (c) determining that the dose is lower if the signature is present in the biological sample than if the signature is not present in the biological sample, and determining that the dose is higher if the signature is not present in the biological sample than if the signature is present in the biological sample. The method can comprise communicating to a medical professional information regarding whether or not the signature is present in the biological sample. The method can further comprise communicating to a medical professional information indicating that the presence of the signature correlates with a lower dose of radiation therapy. The radiation therapy signature can comprise one or more markers selected from the group consisting of rs7000734, rs16885294, rs1561715, rs1610110, rs2859631, rs12569163, rs16889440, rs7554126, rs4742269, rs7591064, rs11250464, rs1853665, rs4392868, rs17598306, rs1471356, and rs4554799. The radiation therapy signature can comprise one or more markers selected from the group consisting of rs4392868, rs297550, rs1946944, rs12548426, rs1610110, rs1561715, rs1561714, rs4734298, rs7000734, and rs212551.

The radiation therapy signature can comprise one or more markers selected from the group consisting of rs1610110, rs1561715, rs1561714, rs4392868, rs7000734, and rs212551. The radiation therapy signature can comprise one or more markers selected from the group consisting of rs6863920, rs6449478, rs2409791, rs4326096, rs206789, and rs286158. The radiation therapy signature can comprise one or more markers selected from the group consisting of rs4463400, rs6578080, rs4397386, rs7387053, rs4487737, rs13275618, rs6578083, rs7814976, rs7841539, rs6578084, and rs9324519. The radiation therapy signature can comprise one or more markers selected from the group consisting of rs12553351 and rs4742269. The radiation therapy signature can comprise rs1610110, rs1561715, or rs7000734.

Unless otherwise defined, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention pertains. Although methods and materials similar or equivalent to those described herein can be used to practice the invention, suitable methods and materials are described below. All publications, patent applications, patents, and other references mentioned herein are incorporated by reference in their entirety. In case of conflict, the present specification, including definitions, will control. In addition, the materials, methods, and examples are illustrative only and not intended to be limiting.

The details of one or more embodiments of the invention are set forth in the accompanying drawings and the description below. Other features, objects, and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the description and drawings, and from the claims.

DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a diagram of the human variation cell line model system described herein.

FIG. 2 is a plot of area under the curve (AUC) vs. SNPs based on p-value and chromosomal position. The y-axis gives the −log₁₀(p-value) for the association, while the x-axis gives the relative chromosomal position for each SNP. Each dot represents an association identified. The analysis was conducted using a panel of 300 human lymphoblastoid cell lines (100 Caucasian American, 100 African American, and 100 Han-Chinese American cell lines), adjusted for ethnicity.

FIG. 3 is a plot of AUC vs. chromosome 8 SNPs based on p-value and chromosomal position. The y-axis gives the −log₁₀(p-value) for the association, while the x-axis gives the relative position on chromosome 8 for each SNP. Each dot represents an association identified. The analysis was conducted using a panel of 100 human (Caucasian American) lymphoblastoid cell lines.

FIG. 4A is a graph plotting representative radiation cytotoxicity dose-response curves. Two cell lines from each of the three ethnic groups studied were selected to illustrate a range of radiation cytotoxicity “dose response” curves. Squares indicate African-Americans (AA), triangles Caucasian-Americans (CA) and circles Han Chinese-Americans (HCA). The x-axis indicates log 10 (radiation dose) and the y-axis indicates the proportion of cell surviving after radiation exposure. FIG. 4B is a graph plotting the relationship of ethnic group to radiation AUC. FIG. 4C is a graph plotting the gender effect on radiation AUC. FIG. 4D is a graph plotting a frequency distribution histogram of In AUC values for 277 cell lines.

FIG. 5A is a graph plotting genome-wide association of basal expression with radiation AUC for 277 cell lines. The y-axis represents the −log 10(p value) for the association of individual expression array probe sets. Expression probe sets are plotted on the x-axis based on the chromosomal locations of their genes. If genes had more than one probe set, the one with the lowest p value was plotted. The horizontal line indicates a p value of 10⁻³. FIG. 5B is a graph plotting genome-wide SNP association with radiation AUC for 277 cell lines. The y-axis represents −log 10(p value) for the association of each SNP with radiation AUC. SNPs are plotted on the x-axis based on their chromosomal locations. The horizontal line indicates a p value of 10⁻⁴. FIG. 5C is a graph plotting the most significant “locus” on chromosome 8 that was associated with radiation AUC. Diamonds indicate SNPs observed by genotyping, while triangles indicate imputed SNPs. The y-axis represents −log 10(p value) for the association of each SNP with radiation AUC, and the x-axis represents the location of the SNP on chromosome 8.

FIG. 6 is a diagram depicting linkage disequilibrium analysis for 6 top SNPs on chromosome 8, locus “8C,” in AA and CA subjects.

FIG. 7 is a diagram of the strategy used to select genes for functional validation. Genome-wide association studies for radiation AUC were performed with 1.3 million SNPs or 54,000 expression probe sets. A SNP locus-Expression-AUC “integrated analysis” was performed using “loci” that contained at least 2 SNPs associated with radiation AUC with p values<10⁻⁴, 54,000 expression probe sets and radiation AUC associations were used to identify SNPs associated with radiation AUC through their influence on gene expression (SNP-Expression p value<10⁻⁴, Expression-AUC p value<10⁻³). Finally, 23 candidate genes, including 1 from a SNP locus-AUC analysis, 12 from Expression-AUC analyses and 10 from SNP locus-Expression-AUC “integrated analyses”, were selected for functional validation studies performed with multiple cancer cell lines.

FIG. 8 presents data from siRNA screening of candidate genes by MTS assay in multiple cancer cell lines. Data are shown for five of the top 23 candidate genes, which were selected on the basis of “integrated analyses” and their potential biological implications, and were studied functionally in HupT3, MIA-PaCa2 and HeLa cancer cell lines by MTS assay after siRNA knockdown performed with two “unvalidated” or one “validated” siRNA when available. Dark gray bars and squares indicate data for non-transfected cells; white bars and triangles indicate negative control siRNA; and striped bars, gray bars, and circles indicate data for specific siRNAs. If two siRNAs were available, “significance” was defined as a gene with a significant change in apparent AUC for both in comparison with control siRNA. FIG. 8A, Candidate gene symbols. FIG. 8B, QRT-PCR. The y-axis indicates relative gene expression after siRNA knockdown when compared with “all star negative” siRNA. FIG. 8C, MTS assays. The x-axis indicates the log 10 (radiation dose) and the y-axis indicates the proportion of cells surviving after exposure to radiation.

FIG. 9 presents data from siRNA screening of candidate genes by colony-forming assay performed with multiple cancer cell lines. Data for five of the 23 top candidate genes were selected for colony-forming assays using HupT3, MIA-PaCa2, HeLa and A549 cancer cell lines. QRT-PCR also was performed to determine knockdown efficiency. Dark gray bars and squares indicate data for non-transfected cells; white bars and triangles indicate negative control siRNA; and gray bars and circles indicate data for specific siRNAs. FIG. 9A, Candidate gene symbols. FIG. 9B, QRT-PCR to assess expression levels for each candidate gene after knockdown in each cell line. FIG. 9C, Colony-forming assays performed with HupT3, MIA-PaCa2, HeLa and A549 cancer cell lines. The x-axis indicates the log 10 (radiation dose), and the y-axis indicates colony-forming ability relative to control.

FIG. 10A is a pair of graphs plotting association of genotypes for two SNPs downstream of DEPDC1B with expression levels of DEPDC1B (left panel) and BORA (right panel) in 277 cell lines. FIG. 10B is a graph plotting the correlation of DEPDC1B and BORA log 2 expression in the 277 LCLs studied using microarray. The data are expressed as relative standard deviates (Z values). R represents the Pearson correlation coefficient. FIG. 10C is a pair of graphs plotting real time QRT-PCR to assess BORA expression levels after knockdown of DEPDC1B in HeLa (left panel) or HupT3 (right panel) cell lines. Cells were transfected with either negative control siRNA (grey) or specific siRNA for DEPDC1B (black). Controls (white) were untransfected cells. RNA was isolated 24 or 48 hours later to perform RT-PCR to determine DEPDC1B and BORA mRNA levels. Expression is expressed relative to levels after negative siRNA.

FIGS. 11A, 11B, and 11C are diagrams of the results of Ingenuity Pathway analyses. A total of 240 candidate genes, including 211 genes from either expression vs. AUC correlations (p value<10⁻³) or from “integrated analyses” (SNP vs. Expression p value<10⁻⁴, and Expression vs. AUC p value<10⁻³), and 29 genes from 27 “loci” that were associated with radiation AUC, with each locus containing at least 2 SNPs within 50 kb with p values<10⁻⁴, were used in the network analyses.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Genotype-Phenotype Association Studies

This document relates to results obtained using a panel of immortalized human lymphoblastoid cell lines obtained from healthy individuals of varying ethnicities. The panel can allow one to query genomic variation across the entire genome for the effects of inheritance on variation in response to drug or radiation therapy. Such a panel can be used for preclinical testing for common, functionally significant gene sequence variation that influences treatment phenotypes. For example, a cell line panel can be used to test individual responses to therapies such as radiation treatment, drugs (e.g., anti-cancer drugs and immunosuppressants), and drug metabolites. Further, pharmaceutical companies can test drugs on a cell line panel prior to clinical trials, and medical researchers can use such a cell line panel to determine genetic reasons for adverse reactions to therapies, or failure of a therapy to be efficacious.

Therapeutic response phenotypes can vary from life-threatening adverse reactions at one end of the spectrum to lack of the desired therapeutic efficacy at the other. Thus, a cell line panel such as that described herein can be used to define, prior to patient exposure, the possible effect of common DNA sequence variation on response to a particular therapy. For example, in depth resequencing data can be obtained in the cell lines for genes encoding proteins in known pathways for radiation effects (e.g., DNA damage, DNA repair, and cell cycle pathways), as well as drug metabolism, drug transport, and drug effects. In addition, genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) across the entire genome can be obtained for the individual cell lines for use in genome-wide association studies. Genotype-phenotype correlation analyses using SNPs and intragene haplotype (the combination of SNPs on a given allele) resulting from gene resequencing and genome-wide SNPs can be performed to identify “therapogenomic” and pharmacogenomic candidate genes, both within traditional pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic (PD) pathways, as well as across the entire genome. Expression array data for every gene in the human genome encoding a protein, as well as exon array data and genome-wide gene copy number information also can be obtained for the cell lines.

Further, as future techniques for defining DNA sequence variation are developed, culminating in complete genomic sequence for each cell line, those techniques can be added to accumulate a dense array of information—in effect, a “data warehouse”—with respect to differences in DNA sequence and structure that can be correlated with variation in drug-related phenotypes. Those phenotypes may include variation in gene expression, variation in cytotoxicity, variation in apoptosis, variation in nucleic acid methylation, and variation in metabolites in response to varying levels of radiation or varying concentrations of drug, for example. All of this information can be used to perform both “pathway-based” and “genome-wide” genotype-phenotype correlations to identify genetic polymorphisms and/or haplotypes that can be used to develop hypotheses with the cell lines, which then can be tested functionally in the laboratory and also in the clinic, using patient DNA or tissue samples (see FIG. 1). Therefore, the panel of cell lines described herein can be used to identify and characterize the effect of common variation in DNA sequence and structure in human populations on therapy response phenotypes that might be responsible for individual differences in adverse reactions to radiation therapy or in the efficacy of radiation therapy. It is noted that in addition to sequence information, data related to levels of metabolites, polypeptides, and mRNAs can be obtained from the panel of cell lines and correlated to individual variation in therapeutic effects.

Cells used in the model system described herein can be obtained commercially, for example, from the non-profit Coriell Institute for Medical Research (online at cimr.umdnj.edu). For example, the Human Variation Panel cell lines available from Coriell can be used. The Human Variation Panel includes immortalized lymphoblastoid cell lines collected from 100 African American (AA), 100 Caucasian American (CA), 100 Han-Chinese American (HCA) subjects and 23 CEPH (Utah family) cell lines. The panel used in the methods described herein can include any suitable number of individual cell lines from any ethnic group. For example, the panel can include from 50 to 100 individual AA cell lines, from 50 to 100 CA cell lines, and/or from 50 to 100 HCA cell lines. DNA from the cell lines can be used for in-depth resequencing of genes of interest, and also to obtain genome-wide SNP data for use during genome-wide association studies. The advantage of this system is that the cells are “renewable” and broadly accessible to the general scientific community. In addition, these cell lines represent ethnically diverse population groups.

Modern genomic tools (e.g., genome-wide SNPs and in depth resequencing of functionally important genes) can be used with the cell line panel to identify genes that might be associated with therapeutic response phenotypes. Phenotypes correlated with this genetic variation can include, for example, expression array and metabolomic data, therapy-induced cytotoxicity, methylation status, copy number, and cell cycle effects. SNPs or genes showing significant association with these phenotypes then can be tested functionally and, eventually, clinically. In essence, each of the cell lines in the panel can be viewed as an individual “patient” with a unique genotype and a series of associated phenotypes that can be used for preclinical screening of candidate genes and SNPs. A tremendous advantage of this model system is the fact that high throughput genetic data for these cell lines can be added continuously. Therefore, unlike patient-based information, data for these cell lines can “accumulate” and be used for studies involving a variety of therapeutic response phenotypes and a virtually endless series of therapies or therapy candidates.

SNP and haplotype associations can be performed with cell-based phenotypes and/or with phenotypes related to the response to treatment of disease with particular therapies. Cell-based phenotypes include, for example, cytotoxicity, levels of intracellular metabolites, and gene expression before and after treatment in lymphoblastoid cells. Patient-related phenotypes include, for example, overall patient survival and/or time to progression after treatment, as well as therapy-related toxicity phenotypes, including neutrophil and platelet counts.

The association of each SNP with the quantitative phenotypes of metabolite concentration, cytotoxicity, and level of gene expression, as well as neutrophil and platelet counts can be evaluated with linear models in which genotypes for a SNP are evaluated with two indicators as covariates. This provides a 2 degree-of-freedom (df) test for each SNP. To assess single SNP genotype associations with patient survival time and time to progression, the Kaplan-Meier method can be used to estimate survival curves for the different genotypes. The curves can be compared using log-rank tests. Survival time as a function of genotype can be examined using the Cox proportional hazards model, and hazard ratios can be used to examine the survival rate by genotype (Cox (1972) Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B:187-220). Disease status, age at time of treatment, gender and duration of treatment can be included as covariates in the proportional hazards models.

In addition to the association of phenotypes with SNPs, their association with intragene haplotypes can be evaluated for candidate genes using a global test of association. Since haplotypes are not observed directly, unknown phase can be accounted for using the score statistics developed by Schaid et al. ((2002) Am J Hum Genet 70:425-34). To estimate the magnitude of effects from haplotypes found to be significant using the score statistics, haplotype regression methods can be used. See, e.g., Lake et al. (2003) Hum Hered 55:56-65. Intragene haplotypes can be associated with clinical response using survival time and time to progression as phenotypes. All possible pairs of haplotypes can be evaluated for each patient, and the posterior probability can be associated with each haplotype using the EM algorithm, as implemented in the Splus library Haplostat (Schaid et al., supra). These posterior probabilities can be used to create expected design matrices to evaluate the association of haplotypes with survival time via the Cox model.

As used herein, a “radiation therapy signature” refers to a SNP profile where one or more (e.g., one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, or ten) of the SNPs listed in the tables presented herein (e.g., Table 1, Table 6, Table 7, Table 8, or Table 9) are present in a mammal. In some cases, for example, a radiation therapy signature can be a profile where 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, or 100 percent of the SNPs listed in Table 1, Table 6, Table 7, Table 8, Table 9, or a combination thereof, are present in a mammal.

In addition to sequence information, data related to levels of one or more metabolites, polypeptides, and/or RNAs (e.g., mRNAs) can be obtained from cell lines and correlated to drug responses. Cell lines can be characterized for any number of SNPs, metabolites, polypeptides, and RNAs (e.g., at least 100, at least 1,000, at least 10,000, at least 20,000, at least 50,000, or at least 100,000 SNPs, metabolites, polypeptides, or RNAs). In some embodiments, a cell can be characterized for all known SNPs, and levels of all known metabolites, all known polypeptides, and/or all known mRNAs.

In some cases, information obtained for particular therapeutic agents can be extrapolated to other agents that have similar metabolic pathways. Further, information regarding the cellular response (e.g., apoptosis and metabolism) in various ethnic groups for various doses of particular agents can be obtained to determine whether higher or lower doses may be needed for efficacy and/or to avoid toxicity. For example, if it is determined that a particular ethnicity is likely to be more resistant to a therapeutic agent (e.g., radiation), a higher dose can be used, whereas if it is determined that a particular ethnicity is likely to be more responsive to the agent, a lower dose may be used. If it is determined that a particular ethnicity is more likely to experience adverse side effects in response to a therapeutic agent, a lower dose can be used, whereas if it is determined that a particular ethnicity is less likely to experience adverse side effects in response to the agent, a higher dose may be used.

Methods

This document provides methods for assessing a subject's likelihood of responding to radiation therapy, and/or for determining radiation dose levels. The methods provided herein can include, for example, testing a biological sample obtained from a subject to determine whether the sample contains one or more biomarkers indicating that the subject is likely to respond to radiation therapy, or to experience adverse side effects from radiation therapy. Such methods also can be used to, for example, determine whether a subject should be treated with a lower rather than a higher dose of radiation (e.g., if a biological sample from the subject contains a nucleotide polymorphism associated with responsiveness to radiation therapy or with adverse side effects to radiation therapy, it can be an indication that the subject should be treated with a lower dose of radiation than if the subject did not contain the polymorphism).

Any suitable biological sample can be used. A biological sample can be, for example, blood, serum, plasma, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, pleural fluid, sputum, peritoneal fluid, bladder washings, oral washings, tissue samples, touch preps, or fine-needle aspirates.

In some embodiments, a biomarker can be a nucleotide sequence variant (e.g., rs4392868, rs297550, rs1946944, rs12548426, rs1610110, rs1561715, rs1561714, rs4734298, rs7000734, or rs212551). Nucleotide sequence variants can be detected, for example, by sequencing exons, introns, 5′ untranslated sequences, or 3′ untranslated sequences, by performing allele-specific hybridization, allele-specific restriction digests, mutation specific polymerase chain reactions (MSPCR), by single-stranded conformational polymorphism (SSCP) detection (Schafer et al. (1995) Nat. Biotechnol. 15:33-39), denaturing high performance liquid chromatography (DHPLC, Underhill et al. (1997) Genome Res. 7:996-1005), infrared matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (IR-MALDI) mass spectrometry (WO 99/57318), and combinations of such methods.

Genomic DNA generally is used in the analysis of nucleotide sequence variants, although mRNA also can be used. Genomic DNA is typically extracted from a biological sample such as a peripheral blood sample, but can be extracted from other biological samples, including tissues (e.g., mucosal scrapings of the lining of the mouth or from renal or hepatic tissue). Routine methods can be used to extract genomic DNA from a blood or tissue sample, including, for example, phenol extraction. Alternatively, genomic DNA can be extracted with kits such as the QIAAMP® Tissue Kit (Qiagen, Chatsworth, Calif.) and the WIZARD® Genomic DNA purification kit (Promega).

An amplification step typically is performed before proceeding with the detection method. For example, exons or introns of a gene can be amplified and then directly sequenced. Dye primer sequencing can be used to increase the accuracy of detecting heterozygous samples.

Allele specific hybridization is an example of a method that can be used to detect sequence variants, including complete haplotypes of a subject (e.g., a mammal such as a human). See, Stoneking et al. (1991) Am. J. Hum. Genet. 48:370-382; and Prince et al. (2001) Genome Res. 11:152-162. In practice, samples of DNA or RNA from one or more mammals can be amplified using pairs of primers and the resulting amplification products can be immobilized on a substrate (e.g., in discrete regions). Hybridization conditions are selected such that a nucleic acid probe can specifically bind to the sequence of interest, e.g., the variant nucleic acid sequence. Such hybridizations typically are performed under high stringency as some sequence variants include only a single nucleotide difference. High stringency conditions can include the use of low ionic strength solutions and high temperatures for washing. For example, nucleic acid molecules can be hybridized at 42° C. in 2×SSC (0.3M NaCl/0.03 M sodium citrate/0.1% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and washed in 0.1×SSC (0.015M NaCl/0.0015 M sodium citrate), 0.1% SDS at 65° C. Hybridization conditions can be adjusted to account for unique features of the nucleic acid molecule, including length and sequence composition. Probes can be labeled (e.g., fluorescently) to facilitate detection. In some embodiments, one of the primers used in the amplification reaction is biotinylated (e.g., 5′ end of reverse primer) and the resulting biotinylated amplification product is immobilized on an avidin or streptavidin coated substrate.

Allele-specific restriction digests can be performed in the following manner. For nucleotide sequence variants that introduce a restriction site, restriction digest with the particular restriction enzyme can differentiate the alleles. For sequence variants that do not alter a common restriction site, mutagenic primers can be designed that introduce a restriction site when the variant allele is present or when the wild type allele is present. A portion of a nucleic acid can be amplified using the mutagenic primer and a wild type primer, followed by digest with the appropriate restriction endonuclease.

Certain variants, such as insertions or deletions of one or more nucleotides, change the size of the DNA fragment encompassing the variant. The insertion or deletion of nucleotides can be assessed by amplifying the region encompassing the variant and determining the size of the amplified products in comparison with size standards. For example, a region of a gene can be amplified using a primer set from either side of the variant. One of the primers is typically labeled, for example, with a fluorescent moiety, to facilitate sizing. The amplified products can be electrophoresed through acrylamide gels with a set of size standards that are labeled with a fluorescent moiety that differs from the primer.

PCR conditions and primers can be developed that amplify a product only when the variant allele is present or only when the wild type allele is present (MSPCR or allele-specific PCR). For example, patient DNA and a control can be amplified separately using either a wild type primer or a primer specific for the variant allele. Each set of reactions is then examined for the presence of amplification products using standard methods to visualize the DNA. For example, the reactions can be electrophoresed through an agarose gel and the DNA visualized by staining with ethidium bromide or other DNA intercalating dye. In DNA samples from heterozygous patients, reaction products would be detected in each reaction. Patient samples containing solely the wild type allele would have amplification products only in the reaction using the wild type primer. Similarly, patient samples containing solely the variant allele would have amplification products only in the reaction using the variant primer. Allele-specific PCR also can be performed using allele-specific primers that introduce priming sites for two universal energy-transfer-labeled primers (e.g., one primer labeled with a green dye such as fluorescein and one primer labeled with a red dye such as sulforhodamine). Amplification products can be analyzed for green and red fluorescence in a plate reader. See, Myakishev et al. (2001) Genome 11:163-169.

Mismatch cleavage methods also can be used to detect differing sequences by PCR amplification, followed by hybridization with the wild type sequence and cleavage at points of mismatch. Chemical reagents, such as carbodiimide or hydroxylamine and osmium tetroxide can be used to modify mismatched nucleotides to facilitate cleavage.

In some embodiments, a biomarker can be a variant polypeptide. Antibodies having specific binding affinity can be used to detect variant polypeptides. Variant polypeptides can be produced in various ways, including recombinantly, as known in the art. Host animals such as rabbits, chickens, mice, guinea pigs, and rats can be immunized by injection of a variant polypeptide. Various adjuvants that can be used to increase the immunological response depend on the host species and include Freund's adjuvant (complete and incomplete), mineral gels such as aluminum hydroxide, surface active substances such as lysolecithin, pluronic polyols, polyanions, peptides, oil emulsions, keyhole limpet hemocyanin, and dinitrophenol. Polyclonal antibodies are heterogeneous populations of antibody molecules that are contained in the sera of the immunized animals. Monoclonal antibodies, which are homogeneous populations of antibodies to a particular antigen, can be prepared using a variant polypeptide and standard hybridoma technology. In particular, monoclonal antibodies can be obtained by any technique that provides for the production of antibody molecules by continuous cell lines in culture such as described by Kohler et al. (1975) Nature 256:495, the human B-cell hybridoma technique (Kosbor et al. (1983) Immunology Today 4:72; Cote et al. (1983) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA 80:2026), and the EBV-hybridoma technique (Cole et al., Monoclonal Antibodies and Cancer Therapy, Alan R. Liss, Inc., pp. 77-96 (1983). Such antibodies can be of any immunoglobulin class including IgG, IgM, IgE, IgA, IgD and any subclass thereof. A hybridoma producing monoclonal antibodies can be cultivated in vitro or in vivo.

Antibody fragments that have specific binding affinity for a variant polypeptide can be generated using known techniques. For example, such fragments include but are not limited to F(ab')2 fragments that can be produced by pepsin digestion of the antibody molecule, and Fab fragments that can be generated by reducing the disulfide bridges of F(ab′)2 fragments. Alternatively, Fab expression libraries can be constructed. See, for example, Huse et al. (1989) Science 246:1275. Once produced, antibodies or fragments thereof are tested for antigen recognition by standard immunoassay methods including ELISA techniques, radioimmunoassays and Western blotting. See, Short Protocols in Molecular Biology, Chapter 11, Green Publishing Associates and John Wiley & Sons, edited by Ausubel et al., 1992.

In some embodiments, a biomarker can be a level of a nucleic acid (e.g., an RNA) polypeptide, or metabolite that is altered with respect to, for example, a control level of the nucleic acid, polypeptide, or metabolite. Levels of nucleic acids, polypeptides, and metabolites can be determined using any suitable methods, including those that are known in the art. These include, for example, antibody-based methods, reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR) methods, and any other methods that can be used to measure the level of a nucleic acid, polypeptide, or metabolite in a biological sample.

The methods provided herein can be used to predict the effectiveness of radiation therapy or the likelihood of an adverse response to radiation therapy in a subject (e.g., a mammal such as a rat, a dog, or a human). For example, a method can include determining whether a biological sample from a subject comprises one or more SNPs (e.g., rs4392868, rs297550, rs1946944, rs12548426, rs1610110, rs1561715, rs1561714, rs4734298, rs7000734, or rs212551), and classifying the subject as having a greater likelihood of responding to radiation therapy if the variant allele is present in the biological sample, and classifying the subject as having a lesser likelihood of responding to radiation therapy if the wild type allele is present in the biological sample. It is to be noted that although resistance to radiation therapy may indicate less disease response, it also may indicate protection against radiation damage. In addition, it is to be noted that allele frequencies will vary among ethnic groups. Thus, the markers disclosed herein may be useful to “individualize” this type of medical therapy.

The methods provided herein also can be used to determine a dose of radiation for administration to a subject. For example, using a method as described herein, it can be determined that a dose for a particular subject should be lower if a variant allele (e.g., rs4392868, rs297550, rs1946944, rs12548426, rs1610110, rs1561715, rs1561714, rs4734298, rs7000734, or rs212551) is present in a biological sample from the subject, and determining that the dose should be higher if the corresponding wild type allele is present in the biological sample.

The methods described herein can be carried out using a computer programmed to receive data (e.g., data from a chip containing a panel of SNPs, indicating whether a subject contains SNPs associated with sensitivity or resistance to radiation therapy). The computer can output for display information related to a subject's biomarkers, and the likelihood that the subject will be sensitive or resistant to radiation therapy.

This document also provides methods and materials to assist medical or research professionals in determining whether or not a subject is likely to respond to or be adversely affected by radiation therapy. Medical professionals can be, for example, doctors, nurses, medical laboratory technologists, and pharmacists. Research professionals can be, for example, principle investigators, research technicians, postdoctoral trainees, and graduate students. A professional can be assisted by (1) determining whether a subject has one or more biomarkers associated with sensitivity or resistance to radiation therapy (e.g., the SNPs listed in Table 1), and (2) communicating information about the biomarkers to that professional.

In some embodiments, a method for assessing the likelihood that radiation therapy will be effective in a subject can include receiving a biological sample obtained from the subject, assaying the sample to determine whether it contains one or more particular variant alleles (e.g., rs4392868, rs297550, rs1946944, rs12548426, rs1610110, rs1561715, rs1561714, rs4734298, rs7000734, or rs212551), communicating to a medical professional information about whether the wild type or variant allele(s) are present in the sample, and, in some cases, before or after the first step, communicating to a medical professional information indicating that the presence of the variant allele(s) correlates with responsiveness to radiation therapy. Similarly, a method for determining a dose of radiation for administration to a subject can include receiving a biological sample obtained from a subject, assaying the sample to determine whether it contains one or more particular variant alleles (e.g., rs4392868, rs297550, rs1946944, rs12548426, rs1610110, rs1561715, rs1561714, rs4734298, rs7000734, or rs212551), communicating to a medical professional information about whether the wild type or variant allele(s) are present in the sample, and, in some cases, before or after the first step, communicating to a medical professional information indicating that the presence of the variant allele(s) correlates with a lower suggested dose.

After information regarding a subject's biomarkers is reported, a medical professional can take one or more actions that can affect patient care. For example, a medical professional can record the information in a subject's medical record. In some cases, a medical professional can record that the subject is likely or not likely to respond to radiation therapy, or otherwise transform the patient's medical record, to reflect the patient's medical condition. In some cases, a medical professional can review and evaluate a patient's medical record, and can assess multiple treatment strategies for clinical intervention of a patient's condition.

A medical professional can communicate information regarding biomarker analysis to a subject or a subject's family. In some cases, a medical professional can provide a subject and/or a subject's family with information regarding radiation therapy, including treatment options and potential side effects. In some cases, a medical professional can provide a copy of a subject's medical records to communicate information regarding biomarker analysis and/or disease states to a specialist.

A research professional can apply information regarding a subject's biomarkers to advance research into radiation toxicity. For example, a researcher can compile data on the presence of particular biomarkers (e.g., SNPs) with information regarding the efficacy of radiation therapy, or side effects associated with radiation therapy. In some cases, a research professional can obtain a subject's biomarker information to evaluate the subject's enrollment, or continued participation in a research study or clinical trial. In some cases, a research professional can communicate a subject's biomarker information to a medical professional, or can refer a subject to a medical professional for clinical assessment and/or treatment.

Any appropriate method can be used to communicate information to another person (e.g., a professional), and information can be communicated directly or indirectly. For example, a laboratory technician can input biomarker information into a computer-based record. In some cases, information can be communicated by making an physical alteration to medical or research records. For example, a medical professional can make a permanent notation or flag a medical record for communicating information to other medical professionals reviewing the record. Any type of communication can be used (e.g., mail, e-mail, telephone, and face-to-face interactions). Information also can be communicated to a professional by making that information electronically available to the professional. For example, information can be placed on a computer database such that a medical professional can access the information. In addition, information can be communicated to a hospital, clinic, or research facility serving as an agent for the professional.

Articles of Manufacture

This document also provides articles of manufacture that can include, for example, materials and reagents that can be used to determine whether a subject has a biomarker for predicting response to radiation therapy. An article of manufacture can include, for example, nucleic acids and/or polypeptides immobilized on a substrate (e.g., in discrete regions, with different populations of isolated nucleic acids or polypeptides immobilized in each discrete region). Suitable substrates can be of any shape or form and can be constructed from, for example, glass, silicon, metal, plastic, cellulose, or a composite. For example, a suitable substrate can include a multiwell plate or membrane, a glass slide, a chip, or polystyrene or magnetic beads. Nucleic acid molecules or polypeptides can be synthesized in situ, immobilized directly on the substrate, or immobilized via a linker, including by covalent, ionic, or physical linkage. Linkers for immobilizing nucleic acids and polypeptides, including reversible or cleavable linkers, are known in the art. See, for example, U.S. Pat. No. 5,451,683 and WO98/20019. Immobilized nucleic acid molecules are typically about 20 nucleotides in length, but can vary from about 10 nucleotides to about 1000 nucleotides in length.

In practice, to detect a particular allele of a nucleic acid, for example, a sample of DNA or RNA from a subject can be amplified, the amplification product hybridized to an article of manufacture containing populations of isolated nucleic acid molecules in discrete regions, and hybridization can be detected. Typically, the amplified product is labeled to facilitate detection of hybridization. See, for example, Hacia et al. (1996) Nature Genet. 14:441-447; and U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,770,722 and 5,733,729.

The invention will be further described in the following example, which does not limit the scope of the invention described in the claims.

EXAMPLES Example 1

Using an in vitro system, 300 “Human Variation Panel” lymphoblastoid cell lines were used to identify SNPs associated with radiation sensitivity. These 300 cell lines were obtained from the Coriell Institute supported by National Institute of General Medical Science (NIGMS). These EBV transformed lymphoblastoid cell lines were derived from 100 Caucasian-American, 100 African-American, and 100 Han-Chinese American subjects. Therefore, the cell lines have diverse genetic backgrounds across three ethnic groups. In addition, 1.3 million SNPs were obtained using two different platforms—the Affymetrix 6.0 SNP chip and the Illumina 550K and 510S Genechip—for each cell line. Since expression array data are available for all 300 cell lines, this system was ideal for generating and testing pharmacogenomic hypothesis.

To identify SNPs and/or genes that might be associated with radiation sensitivity, radiation cytotoxicity studies were performed with the 300 cell lines. Radiation doses ranging from 2 to 10 Gray were used to treat each cell line for three days. Cell viability was assessed with a 96-well CellTiter-Blue Cell Viability Assay (Promega Corp.; Madison, Wis.), and the area under the curve (AUC) was calculated based on the dose-response curve for each cell line using the R package. The distribution of AUC across all three ethnicities was used as the radiation response phenotype shown in FIG. 2. This genome-wide SNP association identified ten SNPs (Table 1) on chromosome 8q22 that were in linkage disequilibrium and were significantly associated with radiation sensitivity. The distribution of AUC chromosome 8 SNPs in the CA cell lines is shown in FIG. 3. The “SNP signals” listed in Table 1 represent a “p value peak,” and SNPs with the lowest p values (i.e., the tops of the peaks in FIGS. 2 and 3) are particularly useful. The frequencies of these ten SNPs in each ethnicity are shown in Table 2.

The SNPs listed in Table 1 also were significantly associated with expression levels for 229 genes having p values less than 10⁻⁴. These genes, which are listed in Table 3, are involved in DNA damage, DNA repair, and cell cycle pathways, and are biologically relevant to radiation treatment. Therefore, the ten SNPs identified in these studies may be useful biomarkers for prediction of response to radiation therapy.

TABLE 1 SNP Polymorphism P value rs4392868 G/A 10⁻⁶ rs297550 G/A 10⁻⁴ rs1946944 A/C 10⁻⁴ rs12548426 A/G 10⁻⁴ rs1610110 C/T 10⁻⁷ rs1561715 A/G 10⁻⁷ rs1561714 A/C 10⁻⁵ rs4734298 G/A 10⁻⁴ rs7000734 C/T 10⁻⁷ rs212551 G/A 10⁻⁵

TABLE 2 AA HCA CA rs4392868 A 0.91 0.02 0.21 G 0.08 0.98 0.79 rs297550 G 0.96 0.99 0.84 A 0.04 0.01 0.16 rs1946944 A 0.22 0.05 0.4 C 0.78 0.95 0.6 rs12548426 A 0.79 0.93 0.58 G 0.21 0.07 0.42 rs1610110 C 0.93 1 0.8 T 0.07 0 0.2 rs1561715 A 0.93 1 0.8 G 0.07 0 0.2 rs1561714 A 0.08 0 0.2 C 0.92 1 0.8 rs4734298 G 0.8 0.93 0.6 A 0.2 0.07 0.4 rs7000734 C 0.06 0 0.2 T 0.94 1 0.8 rs212551 G 0.84 0.98 0.75 A 0.16 0.02 0.25

TABLE 3 A kinase (PRKA) anchor protein 13 Abelson helper integration site acidic (leucine-rich) nuclear phosphoprotein 32 family, member B actin, gamma 1 Actinin, alpha 4 adenylate kinase 2 ADP-ribosylation factor related protein 2 ADP-ribosylhydrolase like 2 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 4 ankyrin repeat domain 23 AP1 gamma subunit binding protein 1 arginase, type II asparagine-linked glycosylation 12 homolog (yeast, alpha-1,6- mannosyltransferase) ATPase family, AAA domain containing 2 ATPase, Ca++ transporting, cardiac muscle, fast twitch 1 ATPase, H+ transporting, lysosomal V0 subunit a isoform 1 ATP-binding cassette, sub-family B (MDR/TAP), member 4 baculoviral IAP repeat-containing 5 (survivin) baculoviral IAP repeat-containing 6 (apollon) bolA-like 3 (E. coli) Bromodomain containing 4 catenin (cadherin-associated protein), alpha-like 1 catenin (cadherin-associated protein), delta 1 CD44 antigen (homing function and Indian blood group system) CDC28 protein kinase regulatory subunit 1B CDC45 cell division cycle 45-like (S. cerevisiae) CDNA clone IMAGE:30332316 CDNA FLJ31593 fis, clone NT2RI2002481 CDNA FLJ33139 fis, clone UTERU1000109 CDNA FLJ36209 fis, clone THYMU2000022 CDNA FLJ36837 fis, clone ASTRO2011422 CDNA FLJ38765 fis, clone KIDNE2014489 CDNA FLJ40647 fis, clone THYMU2017522 CDNA FLJ41675 fis, clone HCASM2002148 CDNA FLJ42561 fis, clone BRACE3006463 CDNA FLJ42786 fis, clone BRAWH3006761 CDNA FLJ46024 fis, clone SPLEN2022785 CDNA FLJ46713 fis, clone TRACH3016885 CDNA: FLJ23006 fis, clone LNG00414 cell division cycle 2, G1 to S and G2 to M cell division cycle associated 2 cell division cycle associated 3 cell division cycle associated 7-like CHK1 checkpoint homolog (S. pombe) chondroitin sulfate glucuronyltransferase chromodomain helicase DNA binding protein 9 chromosome 1 open reading frame 155 chromosome 1 open reading frame 183 chromosome 1 open reading frame 38 chromosome 10 open reading frame 84 Chromosome 14 open reading frame 32 chromosome 14 open reading frame 58 chromosome 16 open reading frame 51 chromosome 19 open reading frame 2 Chromosome 20 open reading frame 155 chromosome 20 open reading frame 30 chromosome 9 open reading frame 40 chymase 1, mast cell Clone FLB8034 PRO2158 coenzyme Q3 homolog, methyltransferase (yeast); coenzyme Q3 homolog, methyltransferase (yeast) coenzyme Q4 homolog (yeast) Coiled-coil domain containing 18 COP9 constitutive photomorphogenic homolog subunit 8 (Arabidopsis) core-binding factor, beta subunit Cullin 4A cyclin A2 cyclin B2 cyclin D2 cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 1A (p21, Cip1) DAZ associated protein 1 dihydrouridine synthase 4-like (S. cerevisiae) dilute suppressor dynamin 3 E3 ubiquitin protein ligase, HECT domain containing, 1 EH-domain containing 1 ephrin-A1 Epidermal growth factor receptor pathway substrate 15 erythropoietin receptor exosome component 8 family with sequence similarity 54, member A family with sequence similarity 72, member A F-box protein 5 FLJ20105 protein FLJ39739 protein Forkhead box O3A Formin binding protein 1 Full length insert cDNA clone ZD50H02 G protein-coupled receptor 64 G protein-coupled receptor kinase interactor 2 gelsolin (amyloidosis, Finnish type) general transcription factor IIIA GRIP1 associated protein 1 hairy/enhancer-of-split related with YRPW motif 2 haloacid dehalogenase-like hydrolase domain containing 1A heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein D-like high-mobility group nucleosomal binding domain 2 histone 1, H2ai Histone 1, H2bd histone 1, H2be histone 1, H2bf histone 1, H2bi histone 1, H2bk Hypothetical LOC344887 Hypothetical protein BC009732 hypothetical protein FLJ10211 hypothetical protein FLJ10241 Hypothetical protein FLJ14082 hypothetical protein FLJ20534 Hypothetical protein FLJ25715 hypothetical protein FLJ38725 hypothetical protein LOC137886 Hypothetical protein LOC149478 hypothetical protein LOC284356 hypothetical protein LOC285954 hypothetical protein LOC286149 hypothetical protein MGC15875 hypothetical protein MGC20235 hypothetical protein MGC20235 Hypothetical protein MGC24039 hypothetical protein MGC5576 hypothetical protein PRO2852 inhibitor of growth family, member 2 insulin-like growth factor 2 receptor interleukin 1, beta isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (NADP+), soluble jagged 1 (Alagille syndrome) KIAA0101 KIAA0319-like KIAA0372 KIAA0922 protein KIAA1659 protein kinesin family member 1C kinesin family member 2C kinesin family member 9 L-3-hydroxyacyl-Coenzyme A dehydrogenase, short chain lamin A/C lanosterol synthase (2,3-oxidosqualene-lanosterol cyclase) Leucine rich repeat (in FLII) interacting protein 2 leucine zipper protein 5 ligand of numb-protein X lymphoblastic leukemia derived sequence 1 lysocardiolipin acyltransferase major vault protein Malate dehydrogenase 2, NAD (mitochondrial) Mdm2, transformed 3T3 cell double minute 2, p53 binding protein (mouse) membrane-spanning 4-domains, subfamily A, member 7; membrane-spanning 4-domains, subfamily A, member 7 meningioma expressed antigen 5 (hyaluronidase) mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase 5 neurexin 3 nicastrin nicotinamide nucleotide adenylyltransferase 2 N-myristoyltransferase 2 Nuclear receptor co-repressor 2 Nuclear receptor subfamily 3, group C, member 1 (glucocorticoid receptor) nucleophosmin (nucleolar phosphoprotein B23, numatrin) nucleoporin 37 kDa NudC domain containing 2 PDZ binding kinase peroxiredoxin 6 phosphoprotein enriched in astrocytes 15 pituitary tumor-transforming 3 pleckstrin homology-like domain, family A, member 3 polo-like kinase 4 (Drosophila) primase, polypeptide 1, 49 kDa proline rich 6 Protein phosphatase 1, regulatory (inhibitor) subunit 16B purinergic receptor P2X, ligand-gated ion channel, 4 RAB3 GTPase activating protein subunit 1 (catalytic) RAB5B, member RAS oncogene family radixin RAS p21 protein activator 3 replication factor C (activator 1) 3, 38 kDa replication factor C (activator 1) 4, 37 kDa replication factor C (activator 1) 5, 36.5 kDa retinoblastoma-associated factor 600 Rho GTPase activating protein 19 ribonucleotide reductase M2 B (TP53 inducible) ribosomal protein L10a ribosomal protein S27-like RIM binding protein 2 RNA binding motif protein 20 RNA methyltransferase like 1 serpin peptidase inhibitor, clade A (alpha-1 antiproteinase, antitrypsin), member 9 SH3-domain GRB2-like pseudogene 2 Sideroflexin 1 Similar to Hypothetical protein KIAA0563 Similar to Microneme antigen Small nuclear ribonucleoprotein polypeptide N solute carrier family 25, member 37 sperm associated antigen 5 spermatogenesis associated 18 homolog (rat) ST6 (alpha-N-acetyl-neuraminyl-2,3-beta-galactosyl-1,3)-N- acetylgalactosaminide alpha-2,6-sialyltransferase 2 stathmin 1/oncoprotein 18 steroid sulfatase (microsomal), arylsulfatase C, isozyme S syntaxin 16 syntaxin binding protein 4 TBC1 domain family, member 7 TBP-1 interacting protein testes development-related NYD-SP21 thiamin pyrophosphokinase 1 timeless homolog (Drosophila) timeless-interacting protein TRAFs and NIK-associated protein Transcribed locus, moderately similar to XP_517655.1 PREDICTED: similar to KIAA0825 protein [Pan troglodytes] Transcribed locus, moderately similar to XP_519290.1 PREDICTED: reelin [Pan troglodytes] Transcribed locus, weakly similar to NP_055301.1 neuronal thread protein AD7c-NTP [Homo sapiens] Transcribed locus, weakly similar to NP_997349.1 FLJ46489 protein [Homo sapiens] transgelin transmembrane protein 48 transmembrane protein 76 trophoblast-derived noncoding RNA TTK protein kinase tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily, member 11b (osteoprotegerin) tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily, member 14 (herpesvirus entry mediator) tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase 1 U2-associated SR140 protein ubiquitin protein ligase E3B ubiquitin specific peptidase 1 Ubiquitin specific peptidase 13 (isopeptidase T-3) UDP-N-acetyl-alpha-D-galactosamine:polypeptide N- acetylgalactosaminyltransferase 10 (GalNAc-T10) UL16 binding protein 1 vaccinia related kinase 1 WD repeat domain 68 X Kell blood group precursor-related family, member 4 zinc binding alcohol dehydrogenase, domain containing 2 zinc finger protein 330 zinc finger protein 608 Zinc finger RNA binding protein ZW10 interactor

Example 2

Further genome-wide basal gene expression profiles and genome-wide SNPs for 277 human lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs) were used to identify and functionally validate SNPs/genes that might contribute to variation in radiation response. Basal gene expression data was obtained for all 277 cell lines using Affymetrix U133 plus 2.0 Gene Chips as well as genome-wide SNP data using Illumina HumanHap 550K and 510S BeadChips together with publicly available Affymetrix SNP Array 6.0 SNP data, resulting in a total of over 1.3 million SNPs per cell line. Radiation cytotoxicity assays were then performed with the same LCLs to obtain area under the radiation dose response curve (AUC) as an in vitro radiation response phenotype. A genome-wide association study was performed using the 1.3 million SNPs, basal gene expression array data and AUC as a radiation response phenotype. Twenty-seven “loci” were identified, defined as at least 2 SNPs within 50 kb having p values<10⁻⁴ that were associated with radiation AUC. Genes also were identified with expression levels that were associated with radiation AUC with p<10⁻³. By then performing an “integrated analysis” of SNPs, gene expression and radiation AUC, a total of 23 candidate genes were selected to perform siRNA knockdown with multiple tumor cell lines, followed by MTS and colony-forming functional validation assays to identify genes that influenced radiation exposure sensitivity.

The series of experiments described below represents the application of genome-wide expression and SNP data from a cell line-based model system to identify genes associated with radiation sensitivity. Those genes, selected on the basis of their association with SNPs, with expression array data or the results of an “integrated analysis” using both SNP and expression array data, were then validated functionally. The p values used during the initial selection process were purposely not stringent since all candidate genes were going to be functionally validated. The functional validation involved siRNA gene knockdown performed with cancer cell lines, followed by MTS cytotoxicity and colony-forming assays. These studies were conducted to identify and functionally validate biomarkers for radiation response, and to identify novel mechanisms that might contribute to radiation sensitivity.

Materials and Methods

Cell lines: EBV-transformed LCLs from 93 African-American (AA), 89 Caucasian-American (CA), and 95 Han Chinese-American (HCA) unrelated healthy subjects (sample sets HD100AA, HD100CAU, HD100CHI) were purchased from the Coriell Cell Repository (Camden, N.J.). These samples had been collected and anonymized by NIGMS. Human pancreatic cancer MIA-PaCa2 and HupT3 cell lines were gifts from Dr. Daniel D. Billadeau, Mayo Clinic. Human cervical cancer HeLa and non-small cell lung cancer A549 cell lines were obtained from the ATCC (Manassas, Va.).

LCLs were cultured in RPMI 1640 medium (Mediatech, Manassas, Va.) supplemented with 15% heat-inactivated Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS) (Mediatech). HeLa and MIA-PaCa2 cell lines were cultured in DMEM medium containing 10% FBS. HupT3 and A549 cell lines were grown in RPMI 1640 medium with 10% FBS.

Cell proliferation assay: Cell proliferation assays were performed in triplicate at each radiation dose. Specifically, 100 μl of cells (5×10⁵ cells/ml) were plated into 96-well plates (Corning, Lowell, Mass.) Li et al. (2008) Cancer Res. 68:7050-7058, and were treated with ionizing radiation at 0, 0.156, 0.3125, 0.625, 1.25, 2.5, 5, 10 and 20 Gy using ¹³⁷Cesium gamma-rays (J. L. Shepherd and Associates Mark I Model 25 Irradiator, San Fernando, Calif.). After incubation for 3 days, 20 μl of CellTiter 96 AQueous Non-Radioactive Cell Proliferation Assay solution (Promega Corporation, Madison, Wis.) was added to each well. Plates were read in a Safire2 plate reader (Tecan AG, Switzerland). Nineteen LCLs were selected randomly, and the MTS assay was repeated approximately one year after the initial assay. Cytotoxicity for human tumor cell lines was determined in a similar fashion except the cells were incubated overnight before radiation treatment at 0, 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2.5, 5, 10 and 20 Gy, followed by MTS and colony-forming assays.

Expression array assays: Total RNA was extracted from each of the cell lines using Qiagen RNeasy Mini kits (QIAGEN, Inc.). RNA quality was tested using an Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer, followed by hybridization to Affymetrix U133 Plus 2.0 Gene-Chips. A total of 54,613 probe sets were used in the analyses. Expression array data were obtained for all of the cell lines, 174 of which had been used in previous studies (Li et al. (2008), supra; and Li et al. (2009) PLoS One 4:e7765.

Genome-wide SNP analysis: DNA from all of the LCLs was genotyped using

Illumina HumanHap 550K and 510S BeadChips, which assayed 561,298 and 493,750 SNPs, respectively. Genotyping was performed in the Genotype Shared Resource (GSR) at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. Publicly available Affymetix SNP Array 6.0 Chip SNP data also was obtained for the same cell lines, which involved 643,600 SNPs unique to the Affymetrix SNP array. SNPs that deviated from Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium (HWE, minimum exact test for HWE) (Wigginton et al. (2005) Am. J. Hum. Genet. 76:887-893) and the stratified test for HWE (Schaid et al. (2006) Am. J. Hum. Genet. 79:1071-1080) (p values<0.001); SNPs with call rates<95%; or SNPs with MAFs<5% were removed from the analysis.

Transient transfection and RNA interference: siRNAs for the candidate genes and “all star negative control” siRNA were purchased from QIAGEN (Hiden, Germany). The human HeLa cervical cancer cell line and the human pancreatic cancer cell lines, MIA-PaCa2 and HupT3, were used for the siRNA knockdown experiments. Reverse transfection was performed in 96-well plates. About 3000-4000 cells were mixed with 0.1 p1 of LIPOFECTAMINE™ RNAiMAX reagent (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, Calif.) and 10 nM siRNA for these experiments.

Colony forming assays: “All star negative control” and specific siRNAs were transfected into MIA-PaCa2, HupT3, HeLa and A459 cell lines. After 24 hours, about 400-1000 cells were plated in triplicate in 6-well plates. After exposure to radiation, cells were incubated for up to 7 days. Colonies in each well were fixed with methanol and stained with crystal violet. All colonies were counted visually or by the use of Quantity One (Bio-Rad, Hercules, Calif.).

Real-time quantitative reverse transcription-PCR: Total RNA was isolated from cultured cells transfected with control or specific siRNAs with the Qiagen RNeasy kit (QIAGEN Inc. Valencia, Calif.), followed by QRT-PCR performed with the 1-step, Brilliant SYBR Green QRT-PCR master mix kit (Stratagene, La Jolla, Calif.). Specifically, primers purchased from QIAGEN were used to perform QRT-PCR using the Stratagene Mx3005P™ Real-Time PCR detection system (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA). All experiments were performed in triplicate with β-actin as an internal control. Reverse transcribed Universal Human reference RNA (Stratagene) was used to generate a standard curve. Control reactions lacked RNA template.

Statistical methods: The radiation cytotoxicity phenotype, AUC, was calculated based on a logistic model. Three different logistic functions (four parameter, three free parameters with a fixed asymptote at 0%, and three free parameters with a fixed asymptote at 100%) were used to fit the data with the R package “drc” (available online at cran.r-project.org/doc/packages/drc.pdf). The best fit of the three logistic models with the lowest mean square error was used to determine the cytotoxicity AUC phenotype. AUC was determined by numerically computing the area under the estimated dose-response curve, from dose 0 to 20 Gy. AUC values were then log transformed. Expression array data were normalized on a log 2 scale using GCRMA (Wu et al. (2004) J. Amer. Stat. Assoc. 99:909-917). The normalized expression data and log transformed AUC values were then regressed on gender. Because LCLs from multiple races/ethnic groups were used, before completing the genetic association analysis, population stratification was assessed and was adjusted using the method developed by Price et al. ((2006) Nat. Genet. 38:904-909). This approach uses an eigen analysis for detecting and adjusting for population stratification, in which the eigen analysis was performed within each of the three racial groups. Using the top five eigenvectors within each race, the individual genotypes were adjusted using the model G_(ij)=α_(j)+γ_(kj)+ε_(ij), with G_(ij) representing the genotype for the ith cell line in racial group j (j=1, 2, 3), α_(j) the race effect for race j, and γ_(kj) the kth eigenvector, k=1, . . . , 5, effect for race j. Similarly, for genetic analysis of SNPs with AUC or expression, the log transformed AUC values and normalized log 2 expression values were also adjusted for race using the five eigenvectors, in addition to gender.

Association analyses of expression-AUC, expression-SNP and SNP-AUC were then completed using Pearson correlations and adjusted AUC, SNP and expression data. False Discovery q-values (Storey and Tibishirani (2003) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100:9440-9445) also were computed for each test. Pairwise LD was estimated using r-squared statistics and was displayed graphically using the Haploview software (Barrett et al. (2005) Bioinformatics 21:263-265). Genes and SNPs were annotated using NCBI Build 36.3. The pathway analysis was performed using Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA; Ingenuity Systems, Redwood City, Calif.).

To integrate the genotype, expression, and drug cytotoxicity data, loci containing at least 2 SNPs associated with AUC with p values<10⁻⁴ within 50 kb of each other were first identified, followed by identification of all SNPs located within the specific loci with p values<0.001. Next, a determination was made as to which expression probe sets were associated with these SNPs (p values<10⁻⁴). Finally, to determine whether the expression probe sets associated with these SNPs were also associated with radiation AUC values, expression probe sets associated with radiation AUC with a p<0.001 were identified. A similar approach has been used successfully to detect novel candidate genes for functional follow-up (Li et al. (2009), supra).

For the most significant “locus” on chromosome 8, SNPs were imputed for a region 200 Kb in length on either side of the most significant SNP. Imputation was performed using MACH 1.0 (Li and Abecasis (2006) Am. J. Hum. Genet. S79:2290), with HapMap data as the reference panel. Specifically, AA SNPs were imputed with CEPH and YRI data, CA with CEU, and HCA with CHB and JPT.

Results

Radiation cytotoxicity: Radiation cytotoxicity studies were performed to determine the range of variation in radiation AUC among the individual cell lines studied. FIG. 4A shows representative radiation cytotoxicity data for a set of cell lines. AUC values differed significantly among the three racial groups studied, with cells from Han Chinese-American (HCA) subjects appearing to be more sensitive to radiation than were those of the cells from Caucasian-American (CA) subjects (p=0.007, FIG. 4B). Gender did not have a significant effect on AUC (p=0.125, FIG. 4C). The median AUC value for the 277 cell lines was 3.17, but the distribution was skewed. However, the distribution of values for the In transformed AUC was nearly “normal,” with a mean value of 1.27 and a range ±2 SD of the mean of 0.28 to 2.26, i.e., an 8-fold range (FIG. 4D). A biological replication study also was performed for the cytotoxicity data. Specifically, cytotoxicity assays were repeated one year after the initial studies for 19 randomly selected cell lines. The results obtained at the two different times were significantly correlated (Rp=0.51, p=0.026).

Correlation between expression and AUC: Correlation analyses were then performed for the association of expression array and radiation AUC data to identify genes with expression levels that might be associated with radiation AUC (FIG. 5A). The association analysis identified 50 expression probe sets that were associated with radiation AUC with p values<10⁻⁴ (q values<0.096), and 270 individual probe sets with p values<10⁻³ (q values<0.182). These 270 expression probe sets represented 211 annotated genes, but only one of the probe sets remained significant after Bonferroni correction (p<0.0002). The top 20 probe sets are listed in Table 4, and the entire list of 270 expression probe sets is found in Table 5.

TABLE 4 Top 20 expression probe sets associated with radiation cytotoxicity (AUC values). Bonferroni Probe ID P value p value R value* Q value Chr Gene Symbol RefSeq ID 243826_at 1.97E−09 0.0001 0.351 9.68E−05 2 — — 209605_at 1.96E−06 0.1073 −0.281 4.17E−02 22 TST NM_003312 1554768_a_at 3.63E−06 0.1981 −0.274 4.17E−02 14 MAD2L1 NM_002358 231149_s_at 4.78E−06 0.2610 −0.271 4.17E−02 3 ULK4 NM_017886 210639_s_at 5.35E−06 0.2920 −0.270 4.17E−02 6 ATG5 NM_004849 234863_x_at 6.66E−06 0.3638 −0.267 4.17E−02 6 FBXO5 NM_001142522 204004_at 7.46E−06 0.4072 −0.266 4.17E−02 12 PAWR NM_002583 238104_at 8.01E−06 0.4376 0.265 4.17E−02 23 — — 207238_s_at 8.81E−06 0.4809 −0.264 4.17E−02 1 PTPRC NM_002838 201345_s_at 8.90E−06 0.4863 −0.263 4.17E−02 5 UBE2D2 NM_003339 219869_s_at 1.04E−05 0.5688 −0.262 4.17E−02 4 SLC39A8 NM_001135146 242364_x_at 1.07E−05 0.5848 0.261 4.17E−02 17 LOC100131096 XM_001720907 204005_s_at 1.10E−05 0.6034 −0.261 4.17E−02 12 PAWR NM_002583 204887_s_at 1.57E−05 0.8572 −0.256 5.51E−02 4 PLK4 NM_014264 214173_x_at 1.83E−05 0.9986 −0.254 5.56E−02 19 C19orf2 NM_003796 201014_s_at 1.90E−05 1.0000 −0.254 5.56E−02 4 PAICS NM_001079524 227620_at 1.92E−05 1.0000 −0.254 5.56E−02 9 SLC44A1 NM_080546 227806_at 2.45E−05 1.0000 −0.251 6.69E−02 16 C16orf74 NM_206967 212896_at 2.60E−05 1.0000 −0.250 6.71E−02 5 SKIV2L2 NM_015360 225562_at 2.77E−05 1.0000 −0.249 6.81E−02 13 RASA3 NM_007368 *R values represent correlation coefficients for the association.

TABLE 5 The top 270 expression probe sets that were associated with radiation AUC with p values < 10⁻³. Bonferroni Probe ID P value p value R value* Q value Chr Gene Symbol^(†) RefSeq ID 243826_at 1.97E−09 0.0001  0.351 9.68E−05  2 — — 209605_at 1.96E−06 0.1073 −0.281 4.17E−02 22 TST NM_003312 1554768_a_at 3.63E−06 0.1981 −0.274 4.17E−02 14

NM_002358 231149_s_at 4.78E−06 0.2610 −0.271 4.17E−02  3 ULK4 NM_017886 210639_s_at 5.35E−06 0.2920 −0.270 4.17E−02  6 ATG5 NM_004849 234863_x_at 6.66E−06 0.3638 −0.267 4.17E−02  6 FBXO5 NM_001142522 204004_at 7.46E−06 0.4072 −0.266 4.17E−02 12

NM_002583 238104_at 8.01E−06 0.4376  0.265 4.17E−02 23 — — 207238_s_at 8.81E−06 0.4809 −0.264 4.17E−02  1 PTPRC NM_002838 201345_s_at 8.90E−06 0.4863 −0.263 4.17E−02  5

NM_003339 219869_s_at 1.04E−05 0.5688 −0.262 4.17E−02  4 SLC39A8 NM_001135146 242364_x_at 1.07E−05 0.5848  0.261 4.17E−02 17 LOC100131096 XM_001720907 204005_s_at 1.10E−05 0.6034 −0.261 4.17E−02 12

NM_002583 204887_s_at 1.57E−05 0.8572 −0.256 5.51E−02  4

NM_014264 214173_x_at 1.83E−05 0.9986 −0.254 5.56E−02 19

NM_003796 201014_s_at 1.90E−05 1.0000 −0.254 5.56E−02  4 PAICS NM_001079524 227620_at 1.92E−05 1.0000 −0.254 5.56E−02  9 SLC44A1 NM_080546 227806_at 2.45E−05 1.0000 −0.251 6.69E−02 16 C16orf74 NM_206967 212896_at 2.60E−05 1.0000 −0.250 6.71E−02  5 SKIV2L2 NM_015360 225562_at 2.77E−05 1.0000 −0.249 6.81E−02 13 RASA3 NM_007368 226223_at 2.91E−05 1.0000 −0.248 6.82E−02 20 — — 1556932_at 3.77E−05 1.0000  0.245 8.30E−02  7 — — 205071_x_at 3.93E−05 1.0000 −0.244 8.30E−02  5 XRCC4 NM_003401 202708_s_at 4.06E−05 1.0000  0.244 8.30E−02  1 HIST2H2BE NM_003528 208382_s_at 4.36E−05 1.0000 −0.243 8.31E−02 22 DMC1 NM_007068 202511_s_at 4.54E−05 1.0000 −0.243 8.31E−02  6 ATG5 NM_004849 205240_at 4.57E−05 1.0000 −0.242 8.31E−02  1 GPSM2 NM_013296 212620_at 5.13E−05 1.0000  0.241 8.61E−02 15 ZNF609 NM_015042 220953_s_at 5.40E−05 1.0000 −0.240 8.61E−02  5

NM_001040446 211363_s_at 5.40E−05 1.0000 −0.240 8.61E−02  9 MTAP NM_002451 216880_at 5.43E−05 1.0000 −0.240 8.61E−02 14 RAD51L1 NM_002877 1557984_s_at 5.94E−05 1.0000 −0.239 8.93E−02 12 RPAP3 NM_024604 205716_at 6.01E−05 1.0000 −0.239 8.93E−02  7 SLC25A40 NM_018843 210570_x_at 6.25E−05 1.0000 −0.238 8.93E−02  5 MAPK9 NM_001135044 206760_s_at 6.79E−05 1.0000  0.237 8.93E−02 19 FCER2 NM_002002 212058_at 6.92E−05 1.0000 −0.237 8.93E−02  3

NM_001080415 204128_s_at 7.02E−05 1.0000 −0.237 8.93E−02 13 RFC3 NM_002915 210972_x_at 7.10E−05 1.0000 −0.236 8.93E−02 14 TRA@ /// TRAC — /// TRAJ17 /// TRAV20 229053_at 7.25E−05 1.0000  0.236 8.93E−02 16 SYT17 NM_016524 204772_s_at 7.27E−05 1.0000 −0.236 8.93E−02  9

NM_007344 232270_at 8.19E−05 1.0000  0.234 9.55E−02  9 C9orf3 NM_032823 233655_s_at 8.59E−05 1.0000 −0.234 9.55E−02  9 FAM29A NM_017645 212588_at 8.78E−05 1.0000 −0.233 9.55E−02  1 PTPRC NM_002838 216274_s_at 8.79E−05 1.0000 −0.233 9.55E−02 15 SEC11A NM_014300 209980_s_at 9.06E−05 1.0000 −0.233 9.55E−02 17 SHMT1 NM_004169 216685_s_at 9.19E−05 1.0000 −0.233 9.55E−02  9 MTAP NM_002451 205159_at 9.41E−05 1.0000 −0.233 9.55E−02 22 CSF2RB NM_000395 228374_at 9.73E−05 1.0000 −0.232 9.55E−02 10 C10orf28 NM_014472 204633_s_at 9.78E−05 1.0000 −0.232 9.55E−02 14 RPS6KA5 NM_004755 1569607_s_at 9.89E−05 1.0000  0.232 9.55E−02  1 ANKRD20A1 /// NM_001012419 ANKRD20A2 /// ANKRD20A3 /// ANKRD20A4 /// C21orf81 /// LOC100132733 /// LOC284232 /// LOC643187 /// LOC647595 /// LOC653436 /// LOC727770 /// LOC728783 203768_s_at 1.01E−04 1.0000 −0.232 9.55E−02 23

NM_000351 214540_at 1.01E−04 1.0000  0.232 9.55E−02  6 HIST1H2BO NM_003527 200806_s_at 1.05E−04 1.0000 −0.231 9.59E−02 12 HSPD1 NM_002156 205429_s_at 1.06E−04 1.0000 −0.231 9.59E−02  7 MPP6 NM_016447 211902_x_at 1.08E−04 1.0000 −0.231 9.59E−02 14 TRA@ — 221504_s_at 1.11E−04 1.0000  0.230 9.59E−02  8 ATP6V1H NM_015941 220721_at 1.12E−04 1.0000 −0.230 9.59E−02 19 ZNF614 NM_025040 204652_s_at 1.13E−04 1.0000 −0.230 9.59E−02  7

NM_001040110 220390_at 1.16E−04 1.0000  0.230 9.69E−02 11 AGBL2 NM_024783 205981_s_at 1.20E−04 1.0000 −0.229 9.78E−02  4 ING2 NM_001564 219715_s_at 1.22E−04 1.0000 −0.229 9.78E−02 14

NM_001008744 201688_s_at 1.24E−04 1.0000 −0.229 9.79E−02  8

NM_001025252 210455_at 1.31E−04 1.0000 −0.228 1.01E−01 10 C10orf28 NM_014472 209724_s_at 1.34E−04 1.0000 −0.228 1.01E−01 18 ZFP161 NM_001143823 206759_at 1.34E−04 1.0000  0.228 1.01E−01 19 FCER2 NM_002002 226231_at 1.36E−04 1.0000 −0.227 1.01E−01 20 — — 205124_at 1.38E−04 1.0000  0.227 1.01E−01 19 MEF2B NM_001134794 1552634_a_at 1.51E−04 1.0000 −0.226 1.08E−01 19 ZNF101 NM_033204 209671_x_at 1.52E−04 1.0000 −0.226 1.08E−01 14 TRA@ /// TRAC — 201689_s_at 1.55E−04 1.0000 −0.225 1.09E−01  8

NM_001025252 220088_at 1.69E−04 1.0000  0.224 1.13E−01 19 C5AR1 NM_001736 1566001_at 1.70E−04 1.0000  0.224 1.13E−01 16 — — 201946_s_at 1.72E−04 1.0000 −0.224 1.13E−01 12 CCT2 NM_006431 209267_s_at 1.72E−04 1.0000 −0.224 1.13E−01  4 SLC39A8 NM_001135146 218970_s_at 1.73E−04 1.0000 −0.224 1.13E−01 10 CUTC NM_015960 1555852_at 1.79E−04 1.0000 −0.223 1.15E−01  6 — — 203524_s_at 1.81E−04 1.0000 −0.223 1.15E−01 22 MPST NM_001013436 201079_at 1.84E−04 1.0000  0.223 1.15E−01 15 SYNGR2 NM_004710 217640_x_at 1.85E−04 1.0000 −0.223 1.15E−01 18 C18orf24 NM_001039535 1554883_a_at 1.87E−04 1.0000 −0.223 1.15E−01  5 ERCC8 NM_000082 211088_s_at 1.93E−04 1.0000 −0.222 1.17E−01  4

NM_014264 203294_s_at 1.96E−04 1.0000 −0.222 1.17E−01 18 LMAN1 NM_005570 213231_at 1.98E−04 1.0000  0.222 1.17E−01 19 DMWD NM_004943 223495_at 2.09E−04 1.0000  0.221 1.19E−01 19 CCDC8 NM_032040 203218_at 2.10E−04 1.0000 −0.221 1.19E−01  5 MAPK9 NM_001135044 227261_at 2.12E−04 1.0000 −0.221 1.19E−01 13 KLF12 NM_007249 229285_at 2.13E−04 1.0000 −0.221 1.19E−01  1 RNASEL NM_021133 206667_s_at 2.15E−04 1.0000 −0.221 1.19E−01  5 SCAMP1 NM_004866 210813_s_at 2.20E−04 1.0000 −0.220 1.19E−01  5 XRCC4 NM_003401 206617_s_at 2.21E−04 1.0000  0.220 1.19E−01 23 RENBP NM_002910 214335_at 2.21E−04 1.0000  0.220 1.19E−01 19 RPL18 NM_000979 202468_s_at 2.24E−04 1.0000 −0.220 1.19E−01  9

NM_003798 242843_at 2.29E−04 1.0000 −0.220 1.21E−01  1 BCAN NM_021948 213498_at 2.40E−04 1.0000  0.219 1.24E−01 11 CREB3L1 NM_052854 206668_s_at 2.44E−04 1.0000 −0.219 1.24E−01  5 SCAMP1 NM_004866 243399_at 2.47E−04 1.0000  0.219 1.24E−01  2 — — 223207_x_at 2.47E−04 1.0000  0.219 1.24E−01  9 PHPT1 NM_001135861 202180_s_at 2.47E−04 1.0000  0.219 1.24E−01 16 MVP NM_005115 233560_x_at 2.54E−04 1.0000 −0.218 1.26E−01 20 MCM8 NM_032485 219286_s_at 2.57E−04 1.0000 −0.218 1.26E−01  1 RBM15 NM_022768 219079_at 2.62E−04 1.0000 −0.218 1.26E−01  6 CYB5R4 NM_016230 202143_s_at 2.62E−04 1.0000 −0.218 1.26E−01  2 COPS8 NM_006710 226826_at 2.64E−04 1.0000 −0.218 1.26E−01  5 — — 1554543_at 2.79E−04 1.0000  0.217 1.32E−01 17 SPAG9 NM_001130528 209182_s_at 2.89E−04 1.0000  0.216 1.33E−01 10 C10orf10 NM_007021 223171_at 2.89E−04 1.0000 −0.216 1.33E−01 18 DYM NM_017653 200650_s_at 2.89E−04 1.0000 −0.216 1.33E−01  1

NM_001135239 201344_at 2.93E−04 1.0000 −0.216 1.33E−01  5

NM_003339 238661_at 2.98E−04 1.0000  0.216 1.33E−01  8 LOC100130155 XM_001720201 237158_s_at 3.01E−04 1.0000 −0.216 1.33E−01 12 MPHOSPH9 NM_022782 244398_x_at 3.02E−04 1.0000 −0.216 1.33E−01  1 ZNF684 NM_152373 230134_s_at 3.05E−04 1.0000 −0.215 1.33E−01  9 RC3H2 NM_001100588 221048_x_at 3.08E−04 1.0000 −0.215 1.33E−01 17 C17orf80 NM_001100621 201691_s_at 3.11E−04 1.0000 −0.215 1.33E−01  8

NM_001025252 228485_s_at 3.13E−04 1.0000 −0.215 1.33E−01  9 SLC44A1 NM_080546 225193_at 3.16E−04 1.0000 −0.215 1.33E−01 22 — — 201641_at 3.19E−04 1.0000  0.215 1.33E−01 19 BST2 NM_004335 220794_at 3.21E−04 1.0000  0.215 1.33E−01  1 GREM2 NM_022469 220073_s_at 3.22E−04 1.0000  0.215 1.33E−01 12 PLEKHG6 NM_018173 211080_s_at 3.26E−04 1.0000 −0.214 1.33E−01 14 NEK2 NM_002497 218667_at 3.28E−04 1.0000 −0.214 1.33E−01 23 PJA1 NM_001032396 202089_s_at 3.31E−04 1.0000 −0.214 1.33E−01 18 SLC39A6 NM_001099406 238977_at 3.39E−04 1.0000 −0.214 1.35E−01  2 MCM6 NM_005915 205722_s_at 3.42E−04 1.0000  0.214 1.35E−01  8 GFRA2 NM_001495 221397_at 3.43E−04 1.0000  0.214 1.35E−01 12 TAS2R10 NM_023921 36888_at 3.50E−04 1.0000 −0.213 1.36E−01 19 KIAA0841 NM_015302 224076_s_at 3.51E−04 1.0000 −0.213 1.36E−01  8 WHSC1L1 NM_017778 207079_s_at 3.60E−04 1.0000 −0.213 1.38E−01 14 MED6 NM_005466 205891_at 3.65E−04 1.0000  0.213 1.39E−01 17 ADORA2B NM_000676 238528_at 3.68E−04 1.0000 −0.213 1.39E−01 15 UBR1 NM_174916 223584_s_at 3.74E−04 1.0000 −0.212 1.39E−01  7

NM_015483 1562505_at 3.77E−04 1.0000  0.212 1.39E−01 20 — — 225683_x_at 3.81E−04 1.0000  0.212 1.39E−01  9 MAMDC4 /// NM_001135861 PHPT1 221195_at 3.84E−04 1.0000 −0.212 1.39E−01 17 RNFT1 NM_016125 1554474_a_at 3.88E−04 1.0000  0.212 1.39E−01  6 MOXD1 NM_015529 1554397_s_at 3.88E−04 1.0000 −0.212 1.39E−01 11 UEVLD NM_001040697 219155_at 3.96E−04 1.0000 −0.211 1.39E−01 17 PITPNC1 NM_012417 1565269_s_at 3.97E−04 1.0000 −0.211 1.39E−01 12 ATF1 NM_005171 225000_at 3.97E−04 1.0000 −0.211 1.39E−01  3 PRKAR2A NM_004157 223585_x_at 3.97E−04 1.0000 −0.211 1.39E−01  7

NM_015483 222714_s_at 4.07E−04 1.0000 −0.211 1.39E−01  8 LACTB2 NM_016027 202352_s_at 4.08E−04 1.0000 −0.211 1.39E−01 17 PSMD12 NM_002816 220083_x_at 4.10E−04 1.0000 −0.211 1.39E−01  1 UCHL5 NM_015984 234023_s_at 4.13E−04 1.0000 −0.211 1.39E−01 13 CENPJ NM_018451 224596_at 4.13E−04 1.0000 −0.211 1.39E−01  9 SLC44A1 NM_080546 1554271_a_at 4.14E−04 1.0000 −0.211 1.39E−01  1

NM_001127181 219501_at 4.18E−04 1.0000  0.211 1.40E−01 13 ENOX1 NM_001127615 218622_at 4.21E−04 1.0000 −0.210 1.40E−01 12 NUP37 NM_024057 230070_at 4.31E−04 1.0000  0.210 1.42E−01 11 CNIH2 NM_182553 218073_s_at 4.33E−04 1.0000 −0.210 1.42E−01  1

NM_018087 209643_s_at 4.42E−04 1.0000  0.210 1.43E−01 17 PLD2 NM_002663 215063_x_at 4.42E−04 1.0000  0.210 1.43E−01  1 LRRC40 NM_017768 219030_at 4.54E−04 1.0000 −0.209 1.44E−01  2 TPRKB NM_016058 203984_s_at 4.54E−04 1.0000 −0.209 1.44E−01  1 CASP9 NM_001229 206935_at 4.55E−04 1.0000  0.209 1.44E−01 13 PCDH8 NM_002590 224984_at 4.66E−04 1.0000  0.209 1.47E−01 16 NFAT5 NM_001113178 231918_s_at 4.80E−04 1.0000 −0.208 1.50E−01  5 GFM2 NM_032380 219292_at 4.85E−04 1.0000 −0.208 1.51E−01  8 THAP1 NM_018105 217801_at 4.92E−04 1.0000  0.208 1.52E−01 20 ATP5E NM_001001977 216526_x_at 4.99E−04 1.0000  0.208 1.52E−01  6 HLA-C NM_002117 229173_at 5.00E−04 1.0000 −0.208 1.52E−01  2 KIAA1715 NM_030650 222387_s_at 5.03E−04 1.0000 −0.208 1.52E−01 16 VPS35 NM_018206 226153_s_at 5.05E−04 1.0000 −0.208 1.52E−01 15 CNOT6L NM_144571 1552978_a_at 5.11E−04 1.0000 −0.207 1.52E−01  5 SCAMP1 NM_004866 219126_at 5.14E−04 1.0000 −0.207 1.52E−01  6 PHF10 NM_018288 204417_at 5.22E−04 1.0000 −0.207 1.52E−01 14 GALC NM_000153 206056_x_at 5.33E−04 1.0000  0.207 1.52E−01 16 SPN NM_001030288 219628_at 5.34E−04 1.0000  0.207 1.52E−01  3 ZMAT3 NM_022470 218967_s_at 5.35E−04 1.0000 −0.207 1.52E−01 10 PTER NM_001001484 227376_at 5.35E−04 1.0000  0.207 1.52E−01  7 GLI3 NM_000168 227447_at 5.37E−04 1.0000 −0.207 1.52E−01  5 SKIV2L2 NM_015360 201920_at 5.38E−04 1.0000  0.207 1.52E−01  2 SLC20A1 NM_005415 218603_at 5.39E−04 1.0000 −0.207 1.52E−01  6 HECA NM_016217 203353_s_at 5.39E−04 1.0000 −0.207 1.52E−01 18 MBD1 NM_002384 206030_at 5.43E−04 1.0000  0.207 1.52E−01 17 ASPA NM_000049 204444_at 5.44E−04 1.0000 −0.207 1.52E−01 10 KIF11 NM_004523 241040_at 5.49E−04 1.0000  0.206 1.52E−01  8 — — 1568949_at 5.54E−04 1.0000 −0.206 1.53E−01 17 PITPNC1 NM_012417 209583_s_at 5.65E−04 1.0000  0.206 1.55E−01  3 CD200 NM_001004196 203856_at 5.68E−04 1.0000 −0.206 1.55E−01 14 VRK1 NM_003384 209016_s_at 5.76E−04 1.0000  0.206 1.56E−01 12 KRT7 NM_005556 206220_s_at 5.83E−04 1.0000 −0.205 1.56E−01 13 RASA3 NM_007368 1564962_at 5.86E−04 1.0000 −0.205 1.56E−01  7 ZNF92 NM_007139 226345_at 5.87E−04 1.0000 −0.205 1.56E−01 10 — — 218584_at 5.88E−04 1.0000  0.205 1.56E−01 12 TCTN1 NM_001082537 213575_at 5.91E−04 1.0000  0.205 1.56E−01  7 TRA2A NM_013293 225525_at 6.04E−04 1.0000  0.205 1.58E−01 22 CTA-221G9.4 /// XM_001724436 LOC100131004 202071_at 6.06E−04 1.0000  0.205 1.58E−01 20 SDC4 NM_002999 212552_at 6.10E−04 1.0000 −0.205 1.58E−01  2 HPCAL1 NM_002149 218875_s_at 6.19E−04 1.0000 −0.204 1.58E−01  6 FBXO5 NM_001142522 1554577_a_at 6.21E−04 1.0000 −0.204 1.58E−01 23 PSMD10 NM_002814 1562641_at 6.21E−04 1.0000 −0.204 1.58E−01 23 FAM122C NM_138819 218634_at 6.21E−04 1.0000  0.204 1.58E−01  1 PHLDA3 NM_012396 219960_s_at 6.25E−04 1.0000 −0.204 1.58E−01  1 UCHL5 NM_015984 203767_s_at 6.29E−04 1.0000 −0.204 1.58E−01 23

NM_000351 221698_s_at 6.37E−04 1.0000  0.204 1.59E−01 12 CLEC7A NM_022570 212959_s_at 6.38E−04 1.0000  0.204 1.59E−01 12 GNPTAB NM_024312 221743_at 6.45E−04 1.0000  0.204 1.59E−01 11 CUGBP1 NM_001025596 223785_at 6.49E−04 1.0000 −0.204 1.59E−01 15 FANCI NM_001113378 225951_s_at 6.49E−04 1.0000 −0.204 1.59E−01 15 CHD2 NM_001042572 1554989_at 6.55E−04 1.0000  0.204 1.59E−01 14 KIAA0317 NM_001039479 231597_x_at 6.56E−04 1.0000  0.204 1.59E−01 NA — — 225455_at 6.58E−04 1.0000 −0.203 1.59E−01  1 TADA1L NM_053053 211084_x_at 6.63E−04 1.0000 −0.203 1.59E−01  2 PRKD3 NM_005813 231878_at 6.69E−04 1.0000 −0.203 1.59E−01 16 C16orf53 NM_024516 222293_at 6.73E−04 1.0000  0.203 1.59E−01 19 CADM4 NM_145296 243721_at 6.73E−04 1.0000  0.203 1.59E−01 18 — — 218957_s_at 6.75E−04 1.0000 −0.203 1.59E−01 11 PAAF1 NM_025155 231909_x_at 6.76E−04 1.0000 −0.203 1.59E−01  1 ODF2L NM_001007022 1555762_s_at 6.79E−04 1.0000 −0.203 1.59E−01  1 RBM15 NM_022768 212587_s_at 6.84E−04 1.0000 −0.203 1.59E−01  1 PTPRC NM_002838 33579_i_at 6.88E−04 1.0000  0.203 1.59E−01 22 GALR3 NM_003614 236228_at 6.93E−04 1.0000  0.203 1.59E−01  5 LOC100130744 XM_001720249 1559521_at 6.93E−04 1.0000  0.203 1.59E−01 21 — — 218558_s_at 6.95E−04 1.0000 −0.203 1.59E−01 21 MRPL39 NM_017446 221094_s_at 7.10E−04 1.0000 −0.202 1.61E−01  8 ELP3 NM_018091 235959_at 7.16E−04 1.0000  0.202 1.62E−01  1 — — 242738_s_at 7.37E−04 1.0000  0.202 1.64E−01 16 ZFHX3 NM_006885 232937_at 7.39E−04 1.0000  0.202 1.64E−01 13 — — 222777_s_at 7.41E−04 1.0000 −0.202 1.64E−01  4 WHSC1 NM_001042424 228930_at 7.47E−04 1.0000 −0.201 1.64E−01 15 — — 231873_at 7.51E−04 1.0000  0.201 1.64E−01  2 BMPR2 NM_001204 214168_s_at 7.54E−04 1.0000  0.201 1.64E−01 15 TJP1 NM_003257 203770_s_at 7.56E−04 1.0000 −0.201 1.64E−01 23

NM_000351 219544_at 7.56E−04 1.0000 −0.201 1.64E−01 13

NM_024808 210416_s_at 7.57E−04 1.0000 −0.201 1.64E−01 22 CHEK2 NM_001005735 200868_s_at 7.61E−04 1.0000 −0.201 1.64E−01 20 RNF114 NM_018683 202142_at 7.65E−04 1.0000 −0.201 1.64E−01  2 COPS8 NM_006710 212124_at 7.67E−04 1.0000 −0.201 1.64E−01 10 ZMIZ1 NM_020338 1555830_s_at 7.70E−04 1.0000 −0.201 1.64E−01  7

NM_020728 207738_s_at 7.73E−04 1.0000  0.201 1.64E−01  2 NCKAP1 NM_013436 227803_at 7.90E−04 1.0000  0.201 1.67E−01  6 ENPP5 NM_021572 1555760_a_at 8.02E−04 1.0000 −0.200 1.69E−01 22 RBM15 NM_022768 201690_s_at 8.12E−04 1.0000 −0.200 1.69E−01  8

NM_001025252 228378_at 8.16E−04 1.0000 −0.200 1.69E−01 12 C12orf29 NM_001009894 1564963_x_at 8.22E−04 1.0000 −0.200 1.69E−01  7 ZNF92 NM_007139 224883_at 8.23E−04 1.0000 −0.200 1.69E−01 15 PLDN NM_012388 239105_at 8.28E−04 1.0000 −0.200 1.69E−01 14 — — 1561706_at 8.32E−04 1.0000  0.200 1.69E−01 NA — — 219812_at 8.37E−04 1.0000 −0.200 1.69E−01  7 PVRIG NM_024070 1558794_at 8.40E−04 1.0000  0.200 1.69E−01 NA LOC728190 NR_024397 209708_at 8.42E−04 1.0000  0.200 1.69E−01  6 MOXD1 NM_015529 233421_s_at 8.44E−04 1.0000 −0.199 1.69E−01  1 NUP133 NM_018230 206039_at 8.46E−04 1.0000 −0.199 1.69E−01 23 RAB33A NM_004794 232222_at 8.46E−04 1.0000  0.199 1.69E−01 18 C18orf49 — 226966_at 8.48E−04 1.0000  0.199 1.69E−01 12 PRPF40B NM_001031698 209670_at 8.63E−04 1.0000 −0.199 1.70E−01 14 TRAC — 231046_at 8.72E−04 1.0000  0.199 1.70E−01  5 — — 220885_s_at 8.75E−04 1.0000 −0.199 1.70E−01 13 CENPJ NM_018451 1554493_s_at 8.77E−04 1.0000 −0.199 1.70E−01  2 THADA NM_001083953 223740_at 8.79E−04 1.0000  0.199 1.70E−01  6 RIPPLY2 NR_024277 1559059_s_at 8.79E−04 1.0000 −0.199 1.70E−01 19 ZNF611 NM_030972 224699_s_at 8.79E−04 1.0000 −0.199 1.70E−01  7

NM_020728 230974_at 8.81E−04 1.0000 −0.199 1.70E−01 16 DDX19B NM_001014449 244470_at 8.88E−04 1.0000  0.199 1.70E−01 23 RNF12 NM_016120 203214_x_at 8.92E−04 1.0000 −0.199 1.70E−01 10 CDC2 NM_001130829 231973_s_at 8.93E−04 1.0000 −0.199 1.70E−01  2 ANAPC1 NM_022662 238190_at 8.94E−04 1.0000 −0.199 1.70E−01 16 TUFM NM_003321 214521_at 9.00E−04 1.0000  0.198 1.71E−01  1 HES2 NM_019089 237221_at 9.11E−04 1.0000  0.198 1.72E−01 15 — — 210559_s_at 9.13E−04 1.0000 −0.198 1.72E−01 10 CDC2 NM_001130829 223010_s_at 9.21E−04 1.0000 −0.198 1.73E−01  4 OCIAD1 NM_001079839 210742_at 9.50E−04 1.0000  0.198 1.77E−01  1 CDC14A NM_003672 205393_s_at 9.53E−04 1.0000 −0.197 1.77E−01 11 CHEK1 NM_001114121 223289_s_at 9.56E−04 1.0000 −0.197 1.77E−01  4 USP38 NM_032557 217457_s_at 9.71E−04 1.0000 −0.197 1.79E−01  4 RAP1GDS1 NM_001100426 215750_at 9.79E−04 1.0000  0.197 1.80E−01 22 KIAA1659 XM_001723799 205858_at 9.83E−04 1.0000  0.197 1.80E−01 17 NGFR NM_002507 211318_s_at 9.92E−04 1.0000 −0.197 1.81E−01 20 RAE1 NM_001015885 218295_s_at 9.95E−04 1.0000 −0.197 1.81E−01 22 NUP50 NM_007172 *R values represent correlation coefficients for the association. †Genes that were selected for siRNA screening are highlighted by shading.

Genome-wide SNP association with radiation AUC: An analysis of the association of genome-wide SNPs with radiation AUC also was performed (FIG. 5B). A total of 561,298 SNPs on the Illumina 550K SNP array and 493,750 SNPs on the Illumina 510S SNP array had been genotyped using DNA from each of these 277 cell lines. In addition, the Affymetrix 6.0 SNP array data was publically available. Quality control (QC) was performed for all of these SNPs prior to performing the statistical analysis. Specifically, for data obtained with the Illumina 550K array, 12,261 SNPs were removed that had call rates<95%, 32,550 SNPs were removed with minor allele frequencies (MAFs) <5%, and 4,676 SNPs were removed that deviated from Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium (HWE), using a stringent threshold of p<0.001. Therefore, 511,811 Illumina 550K SNPs were used in the genome-wide SNP analysis. A similar approach was used for the QC analysis of SNPs on the Illumina 510S platform. After removing 10,353 SNPs with call rates<95%, 147,027 SNPs with a MAF<5% and 3,805 SNPs that deviated from HWE (p<0.001), a total of 332,565 Illumina 510S SNPs remained for analysis. For the publicly available Affymetrix 6.0 SNPs, SNPs that had already been genotyped using the Illumina platforms were first removed, resulting in 643,600 unique SNPs on the Affymetrix 6.0 SNP array for which the QC analysis was performed. After removing 26,140 SNPs with call rates<95%, 107,275 SNPs with a MAF<5% and 5,763 that deviated from HWE (p<0.001), 504,422 remained. Therefore, after combining data from the two platforms, 1,348,798 SNPs were available for use in the analysis (FIG. 5B).

The p value for the most significant SNP, Affymetrix marker SNP_A-8538282 (rs7000734), was 3.82×10⁻⁷ (r=0.309, MAF=0.081). The top 16 SNPs, all with p values<10⁻⁵, are listed in Table 6, and the 1335 SNPs that had p values<10⁻³ are listed in Table 7. Of these, 151 SNPs were significantly associated with AUC, with p values<10⁻⁴. These 151 SNPs were located within or close to 99 unique genes on the basis of the annotation of genome build 36.3. Among the 151 top SNPs, 3 were within coding regions, 45 within introns, and 36 and 67 were within 5′- or 3′-UTR or flanking regions, respectively.

TABLE 6 The top 16 SNPs that were associated with radiation AUC with p values <10⁻⁵. Location Relative to SNP ID P value R value* Q value MAF Chr Position Gene Symbol Location Gene (bp) rs7000734 3.82E−07 0.309 0.259 0.081 8 96,196,206 PLEKHF2 5′-upstream 19,002 rs16885294 3.91E−07 0.310 0.259 0.071 6 54,373,355 TINAG 3′-downstream 10,483 rs1561715 9.58E−07 0.299 0.318 0.083 8 96,189,090 PLEKHF2 5′-upstream 26,118 rs1610110 9.58E−07 0.299 0.318 0.083 8 96,185,038 PLEKHF2 5′-upstream 30,170 rs2859631 1.20E−06 0.296 0.318 0.072 16 77,189,295 WWOX intron 0 rs12569163 1.78E−06 0.292 0.394 0.118 1 239,945,170 WDR64 intron 0 rs16889440 2.14E−06 0.290 0.405 0.175 6 24,652,946 KIAA0319 3′-UTR 0 rs7554126 4.34E−06 0.287 0.667 0.297 1 239,953,804 WDR64 intron 0 rs4742269 4.73E−06 0.280 0.667 0.139 9 6,839,317 JMJD2C intron 0 rs7591064 5.03E−06 0.279 0.667 0.110 2 49,031,105 FSHR 3′-downstream 12,051 rs11250464 5.61E−06 0.279 0.676 0.175 10 1,396,364 ADARB2 intron 0 rs1853665 6.87E−06 0.276 0.696 0.344 6 150,340,535 ULBP1 3′-downstream 3,996 rs4392868 8.24E−06 0.274 0.696 0.087 8 96,189,248 PLEKHF2 5′-upstream 25,960 rs17598306 8.60E−06 0.273 0.696 0.079 7 96,419,747 FLJ34048 3′-downstream 51,148 rs1471356 8.71E−06 0.273 0.696 0.230 14 97,373,084 LOC100132612 5′-upstream 86,450 rs4554799 9.00E−06 0.272 0.696 0.170 10 1,397,728 ADARB2 intron 0 *R values represent correlation coefficients for the association.

TABLE 7 Top 1335 SNPs associated with radiation AUC with p values <10⁻³. Location Relative to SNP ID P value R value* Q value MAF Chr Position Gene Symbol Location Gene (bp) rs7000734 3.82E−07 0.309 0.259 0.081 8 96,196,206 PLEKHF2 5′-upstream 19,002 rs16885294 3.91E−07 0.310 0.259 0.071 6 54,373,355 TINAG 3′-downstream 10,483 rs1561715 9.58E−07 0.299 0.318 0.083 8 96,189,090 PLEKHF2 5′-upstream 26,118 rs1610110 9.58E−07 0.299 0.318 0.083 8 96,185,038 PLEKHF2 5′-upstream 30,170 rs2859631 1.20E−06 0.296 0.318 0.072 16 77,189,295 WWOX intron 0 rs12569163 1.78E−06 0.292 0.394 0.118 1 239,945,170 WDR64 intron 0 rs16889440 2.14E−06 0.290 0.405 0.175 6 24,652,946 KIAA0319 3′-UTR 0 rs7554126 4.34E−06 0.287 0.667 0.297 1 239,953,804 WDR64 intron 0 rs4742269 4.73E−06 0.280 0.667 0.139 9 6,839,317 JMJD2C intron 0 rs7591064 5.03E−06 0.279 0.667 0.110 2 49,031,105 FSHR 3′-downstream 12,051 rs11250464 5.61E−06 0.279 0.676 0.175 10 1,396,364 ADARB2 intron 0 rs1853665 6.87E−06 0.276 0.696 0.344 6 150,340,535 ULBP1 3′-downstream 3,996 rs4392868 8.24E−06 0.274 0.696 0.087 8 96,189,248 PLEKHF2 5′-upstream 25,960 rs17598306 8.60E−06 0.273 0.696 0.079 7 96,419,747 FLJ34048 3′-downstream 51,148 rs1471356 8.71E−06 0.273 0.696 0.230 14 97,373,084 LOC100132612 5′-upstream 86,450 rs4554799 9.00E−06 0.272 0.696 0.170 10 1,397,728 ADARB2 intron 0 rs2409791 1.09E−05 −0.270 0.696 0.280 5 59,920,074 DEPDC1B 3′-downstream 8,422 rs12657754 1.10E−05 0.270 0.696 0.221 5 3,875,893 IRX1 3′-downstream 221,376 rs7633553 1.17E−05 0.273 0.696 0.291 3 58,415,276 PDHB 5′-upstream 20,671 rs898387 1.24E−05 0.268 0.696 0.235 1 202,845,996 LRRN2 3′-downstream 6,928 rs6091189 1.27E−05 0.268 0.696 0.277 20 48,689,692 C20orf175 5′-upstream 2,859 rs1715958 1.28E−05 0.267 0.696 0.244 15 53,051,004 C15orf15 3′-downstream 209,800 rs10189510 1.30E−05 0.267 0.696 0.085 2 183,199,011 DNAJC10 5′-upstream 90,233 rs3777645 1.42E−05 0.267 0.696 0.100 6 54,309,669 TINAG intron 0 rs10517564 1.44E−05 0.266 0.696 0.052 4 153,408,601 FBXW7 3′-downstream 53,259 rs631411 1.47E−05 0.266 0.696 0.299 9 199,325 C9orf66 3′-downstream 4,137 rs2498662 1.49E−05 0.266 0.696 0.065 6 139,467,599 HECA 5′-upstream 30,343 rs12553351 1.49E−05 0.265 0.696 0.117 9 6,828,348 JMJD2C intron 0 rs12380100 1.55E−05 0.265 0.696 0.097 9 11,177,013 LOC646114 3′-downstream 146,728 rs869239 1.60E−05 0.265 0.696 0.495 4 183,690,033 ODZ3 intron 0 rs7676392 1.73E−05 0.264 0.696 0.281 4 183,613,233 ODZ3 intron 0 rs12705596 1.75E−05 0.263 0.696 0.161 7 108,893,619 LOC100128056 5′-upstream 372,799 rs10183821 1.81E−05 0.264 0.696 0.120 2 128,753,139 HS6ST1 intron 0 rs7901632 1.87E−05 0.262 0.696 0.072 10 80,382,672 ZMIZ1 5′-upstream 248,675 rs17598132 1.89E−05 0.263 0.696 0.076 7 96,417,275 FLJ34048 3′-downstream 53,620 rs7193297 1.97E−05 0.267 0.696 0.447 16 71,551,332 ZFHX3 missense 0 rs10515853 2.05E−05 0.261 0.696 0.051 5 162,588,458 MRP63P6 3′-downstream 189,268 rs1561714 2.14E−05 0.261 0.696 0.087 8 96,189,151 PLEKHF2 5′-upstream 26,057 rs942679 2.17E−05 0.261 0.696 0.213 1 154,617,690 RHBG intron 0 rs12297511 2.20E−05 0.262 0.696 0.175 12 131,204,374 NOC4L 3′-downstream 1,435 rs10809359 2.22E−05 0.261 0.696 0.109 9 11,135,717 LOC646114 3′-downstream 105,432 rs10084239 2.31E−05 0.260 0.696 0.117 2 42,107,250 LOC91461 5′-upstream 22,007 rs17587765 2.33E−05 0.260 0.696 0.108 1 117,372,602 IGSF2 intron 0 rs672482 2.37E−05 0.259 0.696 0.092 1 143,543,612 TRNAQ-CUG 3′-downstream 7,181 rs13128522 2.38E−05 0.260 0.696 0.060 4 16,149,782 LDB2 intron 0 rs2249118 2.41E−05 −0.260 0.696 0.364 21 36,277,829 RPL23AP3 3′-downstream 32,264 rs10809395 2.50E−05 0.259 0.704 0.103 9 11,223,740 LOC646114 3′-downstream 193,455 rs2212916 2.80E−05 −0.257 0.711 0.366 21 36,281,638 RPL23AP3 3′-downstream 28,455 rs927984 2.81E−05 0.257 0.711 0.130 6 25,520,966 LRRC16A intron 0 rs2826523 2.85E−05 0.258 0.711 0.068 21 21,100,816 PPIAP 5′-upstream 21,182 rs11731599 2.98E−05 0.257 0.711 0.489 4 183,691,126 ODZ3 intron 0 rs4314649 3.10E−05 0.257 0.711 0.242 8 35,052,669 LOC100133273 3′-downstream 200,898 rs894013 3.19E−05 0.261 0.711 0.472 3 4,353,142 SETMAR 3′-downstream 19,193 rs35018391 3.23E−05 0.255 0.711 0.049 4 181,217,870 hCG_2025798 3′-downstream 1,004,366 rs41333347 3.23E−05 0.255 0.711 0.049 4 181,227,186 hCG_2025798 3′-downstream 1,662,228 rs7680285 3.23E−05 0.255 0.711 0.049 4 181,228,438 hCG_2025798 3′-downstream 993,798 rs8089644 3.30E−05 0.255 0.711 0.099 18 2,942,642 LPIN2 intron 0 rs17657370 3.34E−05 0.255 0.711 0.078 7 96,444,428 FLJ34048 3′-downstream 26,467 rs2812604 3.40E−05 0.255 0.711 0.118 10 34,089,448 PARD3 3′-downstream 350,655 rs4326096 3.41E−05 −0.255 0.711 0.270 5 59,926,035 DEPDC1B 3′-downstream 2,461 rs6570180 3.45E−05 0.255 0.711 0.196 6 137,987,617 LOC391040 5′-upstream 73,852 rs2923661 3.46E−05 0.255 0.711 0.240 8 35,061,182 LOC100133273 3′-downstream 209,411 rs16988828 3.47E−05 −0.255 0.711 0.085 22 29,333,561 TCN2 intron 0 rs6079836 3.60E−05 −0.254 0.711 0.339 20 15,383,564 MACROD2 intron 0 rs6079839 3.60E−05 −0.254 0.711 0.339 20 15,384,282 MACROD2 intron 0 rs7990503 3.64E−05 0.254 0.711 0.195 13 79,518,643 LOC729485 3′-downstream 8,767 rs6873333 3.64E−05 0.254 0.711 0.072 5 155,195,850 LOC100131033 3′-downstream 342,496 rs2491142 3.66E−05 0.254 0.711 0.215 1 31,096,680 SDC3 3′-downstream 21,887 rs12376660 3.71E−05 0.254 0.711 0.089 9 11,175,487 LOC646114 3′-downstream 145,202 rs641372 3.75E−05 0.259 0.711 0.071 18 58,432,935 ZCCHC2 3′-downstream 36,137 rs2075243 3.91E−05 −0.254 0.725 0.327 12 15,552,430 PTPRO intron 0 rs1994179 4.08E−05 0.253 0.725 0.259 14 96,989,660 LOC730217 5′-upstream 3,769 rs2862667 4.09E−05 0.252 0.725 0.266 11 43,099,468 LOC100128134 5′-upstream 44,525 rs807301 4.11E−05 0.252 0.725 0.051 6 119,969,706 LOC728727 intron 0 rs1650385 4.15E−05 0.252 0.725 0.437 5 174,991,457 HRH2 5′-upstream 50,861 rs6964059 4.15E−05 0.253 0.725 0.259 7 40,630,937 C7orf10 intron 0 rs898386 4.22E−05 0.253 0.727 0.229 1 202,846,320 LRRN2 3′-downstream 6,604 rs3924198 4.36E−05 0.252 0.727 0.399 3 545,612 LOC402123 3′-downstream 88,860 rs2837005 4.46E−05 0.251 0.727 0.318 21 39,691,677 LCA5L 3′-downstream 7,963 rs2045624 4.51E−05 0.251 0.727 0.258 1 202,851,008 LRRN2 3′-downstream 1,916 rs10490857 4.53E−05 0.251 0.727 0.051 3 6,934,982 GRM7 intron 0 rs4880503 4.54E−05 0.251 0.727 0.171 10 1,426,858 ADARB2 intron 0 rs11976501 4.59E−05 0.250 0.727 0.134 7 76,746,424 CCDC146 intron 0 rs4817696 4.61E−05 0.250 0.727 0.262 21 35,155,046 RUNX1 intron 0 rs8101536 4.79E−05 0.250 0.740 0.208 19 2,580,845 GNG7 intron 0 rs12705601 4.80E−05 0.250 0.740 0.161 7 108,923,348 LOC100128056 5′-upstream 343,070 rs7309722 4.97E−05 −0.250 0.750 0.460 12 76,694,384 NAV3 5′-upstream 54,816 rs10516301 4.97E−05 0.250 0.750 0.072 4 16,143,251 LDB2 intron 0 rs4487737 5.14E−05 0.249 0.757 0.218 8 141,296,740 NIBP intron 0 rs7387053 5.14E−05 0.249 0.757 0.218 8 141,295,342 NIBP intron 0 rs2309691 5.36E−05 0.248 0.777 0.491 4 183,691,063 ODZ3 intron 0 rs17549345 5.39E−05 −0.248 0.777 0.336 3 88,163,269 CGGBP1 3′-downstream 20,521 rs27564 5.55E−05 −0.251 0.791 0.325 5 59,873,391 PART1 3′-downstream 20,403 rs206789 5.74E−05 −0.248 0.810 0.313 5 59,939,728 DEPDC1B intron 0 rs1693219 5.89E−05 0.247 0.823 0.289 1 231,807,892 KCNK1 5′-upstream 8,481 rs11200175 6.20E−05 0.247 0.843 0.167 10 123,568,222 ATE1 intron 0 rs1693216 6.50E−05 0.247 0.843 0.286 1 231,808,517 KCNK1 5′-upstream 7,856 rs11559201 6.57E−05 0.245 0.843 0.141 8 99,075,924 MATN2 synonymous 0 rs11559202 6.57E−05 0.245 0.843 0.141 8 99,075,912 MATN2 synonymous 0 rs2981309 6.62E−05 0.249 0.843 0.241 8 35,048,829 LOC100133273 3′-downstream 197,058 rs13239088 6.64E−05 0.249 0.843 0.054 7 46,381,408 LOC730338 3′-downstream 313,968 rs12121447 6.73E−05 0.246 0.843 0.055 1 120,018,494 ZNF697 5′-upstream 26,581 rs4716858 6.74E−05 −0.245 0.843 0.468 7 157,461,158 PTPRN2 intron 0 rs688858 6.74E−05 −0.246 0.843 0.254 11 87,652,911 CTSC 3′-downstream 13,497 rs4570460 6.80E−05 0.245 0.843 0.058 1 200,955,651 JARID1B 3′-downstream 7,504 rs212551 6.85E−05 0.245 0.843 0.132 8 96,201,280 PLEKHF2 5′-upstream 13,928 rs10118338 6.89E−05 0.245 0.843 0.139 9 11,226,474 LOC646114 3′-downstream 196,189 rs2498090 6.97E−05 −0.245 0.843 0.194 23 89,016,027 LOC360018 5′-upstream 19,984 rs2243174 7.04E−05 0.244 0.843 0.444 1 205,078,108 IL19 intron 0 rs4948698 7.06E−05 0.245 0.843 0.062 10 42,859,465 RET 5′-upstream 33,058 rs2243188 7.11E−05 0.244 0.843 0.442 1 205,081,095 IL19 intron 0 rs13007983 7.12E−05 0.245 0.843 0.114 2 5,642,699 SOX11 5′-upstream 107,551 rs10900601 7.37E−05 0.244 0.845 0.227 1 202,838,673 LRRN2 3′-downstream 14,251 rs6578083 7.41E−05 −0.244 0.845 0.374 8 141,299,161 NIBP intron 0 rs10240447 7.41E−05 0.244 0.845 0.495 7 157,460,585 PTPRN2 intron 0 rs11119670 7.45E−05 0.244 0.845 0.442 1 205,071,944 IL19 intron 0 rs12380191 7.47E−05 0.244 0.845 0.101 9 11,170,739 LOC646114 3′-downstream 140,454 rs10838023 7.64E−05 0.243 0.845 0.267 11 43,113,488 LOC100128134 5′-upstream 58,545 rs7378774 7.71E−05 0.245 0.845 0.064 5 155,221,392 LOC100131033 3′-downstream 368,038 rs12908333 7.72E−05 −0.243 0.845 0.298 15 32,219,109 C15orf29 3′-downstream 1,058 rs9520592 7.80E−05 0.243 0.845 0.215 13 107,268,488 FAM155A intron 0 rs12705602 7.91E−05 0.243 0.845 0.166 7 108,929,460 LOC100128056 5′-upstream 336,958 rs4738839 8.01E−05 −0.243 0.845 0.227 8 61,960,444 CHD7 3′-downstream 18,425 rs7835942 8.01E−05 −0.243 0.845 0.227 8 61,960,345 CHD7 3′-downstream 18,326 rs535161 8.01E−05 0.243 0.845 0.148 11 78,322,944 ODZ4 5′-upstream 122,111 rs11788082 8.03E−05 0.243 0.845 0.150 9 11,208,170 LOC646114 3′-downstream 177,885 rs308731 8.21E−05 0.242 0.853 0.365 3 4,354,374 SETMAR 3′-downstream 20,425 rs12301261 8.36E−05 0.242 0.853 0.081 12 83,102,293 LOC100128335 3′-downstream 264,229 rs1518338 8.42E−05 0.242 0.853 0.288 3 117,912,015 LOC285194 5′-upstream 2,013 rs11102357 8.63E−05 0.242 0.853 0.471 1 112,277,072 KCND3 intron 0 rs4131469 8.86E−05 0.241 0.853 0.350 1 200,237,371 RNPEP intron 0 rs4677119 8.96E−05 0.241 0.853 0.329 3 72,374,648 RYBP 3′-downstream 131,790 rs11888061 9.03E−05 0.241 0.853 0.199 2 66,217,781 LOC729348 5′-upstream 246,161 rs2309341 9.04E−05 −0.241 0.853 0.433 4 181,590,726 hCG_2025798 3′-downstream 631,510 rs1268087 9.14E−05 0.241 0.853 0.147 6 126,155,515 NCOA7 intron 0 rs4234440 9.23E−05 0.246 0.853 0.185 3 43,925,045 ABHD5 3′-downstream 189,749 rs12702213 9.29E−05 0.240 0.853 0.058 7 46,381,080 LOC730338 3′-downstream 314,296 rs165808 9.41E−05 0.240 0.853 0.155 22 15,707,595 ZNF402P 3′-downstream 10,431 rs10007934 9.47E−05 −0.240 0.853 0.087 4 138,044,051 PCDH18 3′-downstream 616,234 rs2735784 9.48E−05 0.240 0.853 0.375 1 200,243,103 ELF3 5′-upstream 593 rs10073856 9.49E−05 0.241 0.853 0.071 5 155,195,298 LOC100131033 3′-downstream 341,944 rs17139113 9.50E−05 0.240 0.853 0.094 16 5,995,338 A2BP1 5 ′-upstream 13,795 rs3088121 9.52E−05 0.241 0.853 0.105 8 99,117,225 MATN2 3′-UTR 0 rs1319550 9.56E−05 −0.240 0.853 0.475 2 80,253,062 CTNNA2 intron 0 rs7157518 9.58E−05 −0.240 0.853 0.374 14 74,900,170 LOC731223 3′-downstream 67,076 rs10770444 9.63E−05 0.240 0.853 0.243 12 8,341,081 LOC100130149 3′-downstream 22,953 rs9388949 9.76E−05 −0.240 0.853 0.484 6 132,319,155 CTGF 5′-upstream 4,944 rs2243193 9.77E−05 0.240 0.853 0.453 1 205,082,848 IL19 3′-UTR 0 rs1991676 9.83E−05 0.241 0.853 0.055 18 64,903,434 CCDC102B 3′-downstream 30,028 rs7751415 9.85E−05 0.241 0.853 0.147 6 87,098,629 LOC643926 5′-upstream 100,055 rs9852704 9.86E−05 −0.240 0.853 0.406 3 88,171,034 CGGBP1 3′-downstream 12,756 rs7379436 1.00E−04 0.239 0.853 0.074 5 155,158,726 LOC100131033 3′-downstream 305,372 rs12356119 1.02E−04 0.239 0.853 0.114 10 128,017,485 ADAM12 intron 0 rs4662786 1.02E−04 0.240 0.853 0.111 2 128,752,362 HS6ST1 intron 0 rs10959622 1.02E−04 0.239 0.853 0.099 9 11,201,722 LOC646114 3′-downstream 171,437 rs4397386 1.03E−04 0.242 0.853 0.214 8 141,294,034 NIBP intron 0 rs10486811 1.03E−04 0.239 0.853 0.254 7 40,617,380 C7orf10 intron 0 rs1829346 1.04E−04 0.239 0.853 0.287 3 117,911,597 LOC285194 5′-upstream 2,431 rs1467166 1.04E−04 −0.239 0.853 0.424 11 36,432,948 FLJ14213 intron 0 rs9450667 1.04E−04 0.239 0.853 0.312 6 88,151,105 C6orf163 3′-downstream 19,205 rs10240312 1.04E−04 0.239 0.853 0.179 7 97,892,440 BAIAP2L1 5′-upstream 24,124 rs2090111 1.05E−04 0.239 0.853 0.217 4 6,149,700 JAKMIP1 intron 0 rs12881650 1.06E−04 0.239 0.853 0.175 14 69,805,287 ADAM21P 5′-upstream 21,016 rs9311337 1.06E−04 0.239 0.853 0.478 3 4,356,787 SUMF1 3′-downstream 21,043 rs10198712 1.07E−04 −0.238 0.853 0.477 2 80,252,590 CTNNA2 intron 0 rs884108 1.07E−04 0.241 0.853 0.180 1 202,857,860 LRRN2 intron 0 rs10996977 1.08E−04 0.238 0.857 0.065 10 67,640,579 CTNNA3 intron 0 rs2837006 1.10E−04 0.238 0.857 0.352 21 39,694,306 LCA5L 3′-downstream 5,334 rs8076804 1.10E−04 0.238 0.857 0.188 17 75,890,077 KIAA1618 intron 0 rs9856655 1.10E−04 0.238 0.857 0.067 3 6,917,072 GRM7 intron 0 rs6744963 1.12E−04 0.238 0.857 0.087 2 20,311,091 PUM2 3′-downstream 843 rs11952678 1.12E−04 −0.238 0.857 0.209 5 62,013,385 IPO11 3′-downstream 53,220 rs17149618 1.13E−04 0.238 0.857 0.105 8 9,140,544 PPP1R3B 5′-upstream 94,914 rs9467231 1.13E−04 0.238 0.857 0.188 6 24,667,566 KIAA0319 intron 0 rs1450705 1.14E−04 0.238 0.857 0.139 14 87,418,880 GALC 3′-downstream 50,231 rs11977013 1.15E−04 0.237 0.857 0.249 7 40,639,214 C7orf10 intron 0 rs297550 1.15E−04 0.237 0.857 0.063 8 96,170,970 LOC100130098 5′-upstream 15,945 rs165790 1.17E−04 0.238 0.857 0.150 22 15,720,906 ZNF402P Unknown — rs7917910 1.18E−04 0.237 0.857 0.257 10 128,234,945 LOC728152 3′-downstream 28,706 rs7302505 1.18E−04 0.237 0.857 0.162 12 63,304,388 RASSF3 intron 0 rs1358531 1.19E−04 0.240 0.857 0.166 15 53,069,902 C15orf15 3′-downstream 190,902 rs11250461 1.19E−04 0.237 0.857 0.226 10 1,394,502 ADARB2 intron 0 rs4951088 1.20E−04 0.237 0.857 0.471 1 202,877,403 LRRN2 intron 0 rs41413447 1.20E−04 0.237 0.857 0.134 1 234,726,528 ENO1P 3′-downstream 11,621 rs10459842 1.21E−04 −0.238 0.857 0.456 16 6,673,694 A2BP1 intron 0 rs2568654 1.21E−04 0.237 0.857 0.280 7 13,727,929 LOC100131022 3′-downstream 132,576 rs11240239 1.22E−04 0.237 0.857 0.469 1 202,879,427 LRRN2 intron 0 rs1376519 1.22E−04 0.238 0.857 0.244 8 35,045,674 LOC100133273 3′-downstream 193,903 rs2490588 1.25E−04 0.236 0.857 0.276 9 78,077,812 LOC100133206 3′-downstream 13,418 rs17543709 1.26E−04 0.236 0.857 0.069 1 233,631,547 TBCE intron 0 rs165698 1.27E−04 0.236 0.857 0.152 22 15,719,068 ZNF402P Unknown — rs2988270 1.27E−04 0.236 0.857 0.112 1 50,428,660 ELAVL4 intron 0 rs6830998 1.28E−04 0.237 0.857 0.279 4 183,617,946 ODZ3 intron 0 rs384483 1.28E−04 0.238 0.857 0.127 5 122,289,472 SNX24 intron 0 rs2332277 1.33E−04 0.237 0.857 0.172 14 69,803,279 ADAM21P 5′-upstream 19,008 rs16994140 1.33E−04 0.236 0.857 0.092 4 37,687,960 TBC1D1 intron 0 rs10813853 1.33E−04 0.237 0.857 0.167 9 32,660,725 TAF1L 5′-upstream 35,058 rs286158 1.34E−04 −0.235 0.857 0.309 5 59,970,010 DEPDC1B intron 0 rs2542443 1.34E−04 0.236 0.857 0.063 8 140,660,763 KCNK9 3′-downstream 33,223 rs11781720 1.34E−04 −0.235 0.857 0.327 8 4,038,118 CSMD1 intron 0 rs1773951 1.34E−04 0.235 0.857 0.070 1 231,802,262 KCNK1 5′-upstream 14,111 rs16843867 1.35E−04 0.235 0.857 0.065 1 197,053,576 MIRN181B1 3′-downstream 41,049 rs10419308 1.35E−04 0.235 0.857 0.143 19 60,431,625 TMEM86B intron 0 rs11250496 1.38E−04 0.235 0.857 0.166 10 1,437,105 ADARB2 intron 0 rs10486799 1.38E−04 0.235 0.857 0.074 7 39,619,751 RALA 5′-upstream 9,936 rs1513412 1.39E−04 −0.235 0.857 0.379 3 147,081,068 LOC389156 5′-upstream 55,809 rs1698888 1.40E−04 0.235 0.857 0.356 11 19,285,798 LOC390102 5′-upstream 32,407 rs727695 1.42E−04 0.235 0.857 0.313 4 183,610,140 ODZ3 intron 0 rs6814420 1.42E−04 −0.235 0.857 0.251 4 165,350,800 ANP32C 5′-upstream 12,487 rs4659246 1.43E−04 0.234 0.857 0.101 1 120,224,228 ADAM30 3′-downstream 13,451 rs937131 1.44E−04 0.234 0.857 0.179 7 97,884,611 BAIAP2L1 5′-upstream 16,295 rs11822678 1.45E−04 0.234 0.857 0.087 11 21,169,711 NELL1 intron 0 rs4786910 1.45E−04 −0.234 0.857 0.365 16 6,674,599 A2BP1 intron 0 rs10095762 1.46E−04 0.236 0.857 0.291 8 129,567,766 PVT1 3′-downstream 385,085 rs9605252 1.46E−04 0.236 0.857 0.148 22 16,170,349 CECR1 5′-upstream 99,570 rs1038050 1.47E−04 0.234 0.857 0.291 9 1,704,233 SMARCA2 5′-upstream 301,109 rs262453 1.47E−04 −0.234 0.857 0.269 11 36,013,498 LDLRAD3 intron 0 rs10120246 1.47E−04 0.235 0.857 0.089 9 9,789,050 PTPRD intron 0 rs17778445 1.48E−04 0.234 0.857 0.056 4 90,590,957 GPRIN3 5′-upstream 142,773 rs2290467 1.48E−04 0.234 0.857 0.108 8 99,109,330 MATN2 intron 0 rs1060681 1.49E−04 0.234 0.857 0.169 14 69,906,506 SYNJ2BP 3′-UTR 0 rs7852743 1.49E−04 0.237 0.857 0.350 9 132,855,205 LAMC3 5′-upstream 19,120 rs11206538 1.49E−04 0.233 0.857 0.406 1 55,488,000 LOC645506 3′-downstream 26,367 rs2836416 1.49E−04 0.233 0.857 0.170 21 38,755,361 ERG intron 0 rs11628576 1.50E−04 −0.233 0.857 0.121 14 82,214,285 ENSAP2 3′-downstream 14,419 rs6793337 1.50E−04 0.235 0.857 0.234 3 189,475,302 LPP intron 0 rs10803641 1.51E−04 0.234 0.857 0.190 2 236,038,499 CENTG2 5′-upstream 28,976 rs6853164 1.52E−04 0.233 0.857 0.477 4 74,370,644 ANKRD17 5′-upstream 27,278 rs7808549 1.54E−04 −0.237 0.857 0.300 7 103,370,996 RELN intron 0 rs11822168 1.54E−04 0.233 0.857 0.256 11 105,136,013 GRIA4 intron 0 rs2887596 1.54E−04 −0.235 0.857 0.423 12 76,678,888 NAV3 5′-upstream 70,312 rs780266 1.55E−04 0.233 0.857 0.071 1 231,791,723 KCNK1 5′-upstream 24,650 rs936361 1.56E−04 0.233 0.857 0.347 3 88,410,116 LOC344653 5′-upstream 38,880 rs12830703 1.56E−04 0.235 0.857 0.055 12 18,061,759 RERGL 3′-downstream 63,311 rs1113599 1.56E−04 −0.233 0.857 0.457 12 76,699,323 NAV3 5′-upstream 49,877 rs10956429 1.57E−04 0.233 0.857 0.338 8 129,584,169 PVT1 3′-downstream 401,488 rs1030016 1.59E−04 0.233 0.857 0.191 7 38,406,097 AMPH intron 0 rs8016862 1.59E−04 −0.233 0.857 0.429 14 26,656,409 RPS27AP4 3′-downstream 141,224 rs1015244 1.59E−04 −0.233 0.857 0.105 1 213,437,193 KCNK2 intron 0 rs10159003 1.60E−04 −0.233 0.857 0.097 1 213,440,307 KCNK2 intron 0 rs11240237 1.60E−04 0.232 0.857 0.475 1 202,879,141 LRRN2 intron 0 rs4951089 1.60E−04 0.232 0.857 0.475 1 202,877,521 LRRN2 intron 0 rs10157448 1.61E−04 −0.235 0.857 0.111 1 213,438,479 KCNK2 intron 0 rs7058743 1.61E−04 0.233 0.857 0.145 23 110,742,481 LOC643873 3′-downstream 5,789 rs16825358 1.62E−04 0.234 0.857 0.285 3 117,912,388 LOC285194 5′-upstream 1,640 rs7043006 1.62E−04 0.233 0.857 0.129 9 100,140,610 GABBR2 intron 0 rs12548426 1.62E−04 0.232 0.857 0.222 8 96,174,362 LOC100130098 5′-upstream 19,337 rs6905924 1.62E−04 0.234 0.857 0.226 6 22,763,578 LOC389370 intron 0 rs32608 1.63E−04 0.232 0.857 0.442 5 11,541,467 CTNND2 intron 0 rs6700381 1.63E−04 0.233 0.857 0.438 1 237,585,731 CHRM3 5′-upstream 273,265 rs2306774 1.65E−04 0.232 0.857 0.220 3 19,898,826 EFHB intron 0 rs6426991 1.65E−04 0.232 0.857 0.214 1 164,553,110 LOC284685 5′-upstream 39,603 rs7911417 1.65E−04 −0.232 0.857 0.106 10 126,895,990 LOC642622 3′-downstream 9,917 rs6051490 1.65E−04 −0.232 0.857 0.475 20 293,864 NRSN2 3′-downstream 10,359 rs4657537 1.66E−04 0.235 0.857 0.422 1 164,534,672 LOC284685 5′-upstream 21,165 rs10221771 1.67E−04 0.232 0.857 0.231 2 236,034,695 CENTG2 5′-upstream 32,780 rs10508213 1.68E−04 −0.232 0.857 0.112 10 1,601,165 ADARB2 intron 0 rs2249971 1.69E−04 −0.232 0.857 0.352 21 36,284,531 RPL23AP3 3′-downstream 25,562 rs1648224 1.69E−04 0.232 0.857 0.372 11 19,269,478 LOC390102 5′-upstream 16,087 rs17171730 1.70E−04 0.232 0.857 0.264 7 40,558,272 C7orf10 intron 0 rs13138387 1.70E−04 0.232 0.857 0.065 4 16,142,474 LDB2 intron 0 rs7079372 1.74E−04 0.232 0.857 0.295 10 33,613,812 NRP1 intron 0 rs4691114 1.75E−04 −0.232 0.857 0.308 4 165,360,381 ANP32C 5′-upstream 22,068 rs1895373 1.76E−04 0.235 0.857 0.353 19 55,801,605 SYT3 3′-downstream 15,441 rs9974828 1.77E−04 0.231 0.857 0.348 21 39,693,915 LCA5L 3′-downstream 5,725 rs12659182 1.77E−04 0.231 0.857 0.094 5 8,570,119 LOC729506 5′-upstream 55,351 rs8083033 1.77E−04 0.231 0.857 0.125 18 17,973,918 LOC100128893 3′-downstream 26,939 rs26953 1.78E−04 −0.233 0.857 0.326 5 59,850,071 PART1 intron 0 rs524905 1.80E−04 0.231 0.857 0.155 5 152,862,559 GRIA1 intron 0 rs4707367 1.80E−04 −0.232 0.857 0.307 6 88,157,907 C6orf165 5′-upstream 16,533 rs2848848 1.80E−04 0.231 0.857 0.215 7 13,733,664 LOC100131022 3′-downstream 126,841 rs1516980 1.80E−04 0.231 0.857 0.332 8 129,587,463 PVT1 3′-downstream 404,782 rs12227066 1.80E−04 −0.231 0.857 0.336 12 76,749,241 NAV3 5′-UTR 0 rs26154 1.81E−04 0.232 0.857 0.442 5 11,546,913 CTNND2 intron 0 rs11955532 1.81E−04 −0.231 0.857 0.200 5 62,016,738 IPO11 3′-downstream 56,573 rs10850803 1.82E−04 0.231 0.857 0.117 12 116,166,212 NOS1 intron 0 rs11982022 1.82E−04 0.231 0.857 0.098 7 66,525,876 STAG3L4 3′-downstream 101,928 rs6858372 1.83E−04 −0.231 0.857 0.409 4 146,413,132 LOC100131639 5′-upstream 22,659 rs8016418 1.83E−04 0.230 0.857 0.170 14 69,868,042 C14orf112 intron 0 rs9864031 1.83E−04 −0.230 0.857 0.153 3 13,883,072 WNT7A intron 0 rs17044859 1.84E−04 0.230 0.857 0.061 2 23,221,744 KLHL29 5′-upstream 237,459 rs11604121 1.84E−04 0.230 0.857 0.052 11 9,090,321 FLJ46111 3′-downstream 16,154 rs9895521 1.85E−04 −0.231 0.857 0.404 17 47,461,994 CA10 intron 0 rs10133631 1.88E−04 −0.230 0.857 0.421 14 95,089,084 GLRX5 3′-downstream 8,276 rs2835133 1.88E−04 0.231 0.857 0.289 21 36,055,327 RPS20P1 5′-upstream 35,893 rs17710575 1.88E−04 0.230 0.857 0.208 4 6,146,988 JAKMIP1 intron 0 rs6851839 1.88E−04 0.230 0.857 0.094 4 153,432,222 FBXW7 3′-downstream 29,638 rs1130790 1.88E−04 0.230 0.857 0.348 1 200,235,705 RNPEP synonymous 0 rs1698889 1.89E−04 0.230 0.857 0.353 11 19,285,890 LOC390102 5′-upstream 32,499 rs17058081 1.89E−04 0.230 0.857 0.096 18 71,619,416 C18orf62 5′-upstream 350,839 rs10028068 1.89E−04 −0.230 0.857 0.426 4 66,479,717 LOC728048 5′-upstream 162,666 rs4951401 1.90E−04 0.230 0.857 0.184 1 202,804,271 MDM4 3′-downstream 17,922 rs11108379 1.90E−04 0.230 0.857 0.085 12 94,940,019 LTA4H intron 0 rs17025033 1.90E−04 0.230 0.857 0.085 12 94,924,591 LTA4H intron 0 rs12496773 1.93E−04 0.231 0.865 0.323 3 88,448,386 LOC344653 5′-upstream 610 rs1543780 1.94E−04 0.230 0.865 0.199 22 20,878,522 IGLVV-58 Unknown — rs4631019 1.94E−04 −0.230 0.865 0.489 4 148,586,417 LOC100130537 5′-upstream 19,464 rs9614763 1.95E−04 0.229 0.865 0.051 22 44,475,636 ATXN10 intron 0 rs12923661 1.96E−04 0.231 0.865 0.055 16 10,018,192 GRIN2A intron 0 rs10898852 1.98E−04 −0.231 0.865 0.266 11 71,960,572 PDE2A 3′-downstream 4,261 rs17734670 1.98E−04 0.229 0.865 0.294 15 23,390,489 ATP10A 3′-downstream 84,463 rs2786723 1.99E−04 −0.230 0.865 0.230 1 197,787,994 LOC647202 3′-downstream 163,768 rs10051752 1.99E−04 −0.229 0.865 0.085 5 154,966,485 LOC100131033 3′-downstream 113,131 rs1523250 1.99E−04 0.230 0.865 0.080 8 3,789,239 CSMD1 intron 0 rs2772227 2.00E−04 0.229 0.865 0.152 1 202,882,023 LRRN2 intron 0 rs1929409 2.00E−04 0.229 0.865 0.245 9 11,942,643 LOC100049717 5′-upstream 334,680 rs6897849 2.00E−04 0.229 0.865 0.303 5 2,342,420 LOC100133292 3′-downstream 292,878 rs1105297 2.02E−04 −0.232 0.867 0.491 1 43,184,183 SLC2A1 intron 0 rs746168 2.03E−04 0.229 0.867 0.226 11 74,669,915 ARRB1 intron 0 rs10494959 2.04E−04 0.229 0.867 0.074 1 211,743,516 LOC643330 5′-upstream 28,312 rs165890 2.04E−04 0.229 0.867 0.188 22 15,708,627 ZNF402P 3′-downstream 9,399 rs165778 2.04E−04 0.229 0.867 0.174 22 15,699,156 CECR8 3′-downstream 8,931 rs4463400 2.06E−04 0.229 0.867 0.148 8 141,289,178 NIBP intron 0 rs6784029 2.06E−04 0.229 0.867 0.217 3 189,462,427 LPP intron 0 rs425545 2.07E−04 0.229 0.867 0.065 2 70,657,975 TGFA 5′-upstream 23,362 rs1877475 2.07E−04 0.229 0.867 0.184 13 95,335,275 UGCGL2 intron 0 rs9995176 2.07E−04 0.229 0.867 0.469 4 74,395,848 ANKRD17 5′-upstream 52,482 rs751210 2.08E−04 −0.229 0.867 0.482 1 43,183,446 SLC2A1 intron 0 rs718387 2.09E−04 0.232 0.870 0.337 21 36,049,947 RPS20P1 5′-upstream 30,513 rs4283786 2.11E−04 0.229 0.871 0.335 5 122,128,949 SNX2 5′-upstream 9,700 rs17031611 2.12E−04 0.229 0.871 0.196 2 66,216,728 LOC729348 5′-upstream 247,214 rs2776278 2.13E−04 −0.229 0.871 0.284 21 36,264,569 RPL23AP3 3′-downstream 45,524 rs6501930 2.13E−04 −0.229 0.871 0.138 17 72,520,666 MGAT5B 3′-downstream 62,600 rs2279120 2.13E−04 0.232 0.871 0.112 8 99,115,216 MATN2 intron 0 rs1450706 2.13E−04 0.229 0.871 0.140 14 87,418,971 GALC 3′-downstream 50,140 rs2348168 2.14E−04 −0.230 0.872 0.452 4 160,444,786 RAPGEF2 intron 0 rs11643459 2.15E−04 0.228 0.872 0.278 16 77,355,588 WWOX intron 0 rs540375 2.16E−04 0.228 0.872 0.157 5 152,858,920 GRIA1 intron 0 rs2862465 2.22E−04 0.228 0.891 0.439 11 42,336,068 LOC387761 5′-upstream 103,940 rs2885552 2.23E−04 0.227 0.891 0.096 7 77,909,577 MAGI2 intron 0 rs8064932 2.23E−04 −0.228 0.891 0.167 17 65,095,146 MAP2K6 3′-downstream 45,081 rs17698900 2.23E−04 0.227 0.891 0.054 10 49,616,272 LOC100132924 3′-downstream 6,981 rs17616659 2.26E−04 −0.228 0.891 0.130 14 82,230,662 ENSAP2 5′-upstream 1,285 rs2631271 2.28E−04 −0.227 0.891 0.310 4 103,133,419 BANK1 intron 0 rs5945353 2.28E−04 0.228 0.891 0.101 23 152,720,129 PDZD4 3′-downstream 688 rs1949593 2.29E−04 −0.227 0.891 0.413 12 76,686,005 NAV3 5′-upstream 63,195 rs943560 2.31E−04 0.227 0.891 0.462 13 95,649,825 HS6ST3 intron 0 rs10030475 2.31E−04 0.227 0.891 0.350 4 70,842,360 CSN1S1 missense 0 rs12119699 2.31E−04 0.227 0.891 0.348 1 200,239,578 RNPEP intron 0 rs2819358 2.31E−04 0.227 0.891 0.348 1 200,243,025 ELF3 5′-upstream 671 rs1329631 2.31E−04 0.227 0.891 0.307 1 202,883,013 LRRN2 intron 0 rs6756848 2.32E−04 0.227 0.891 0.191 2 66,215,108 LOC729348 5′-upstream 248,834 rs2043166 2.32E−04 0.230 0.891 0.074 18 64,902,308 CCDC102B 3′-downstream 28,902 rs37846 2.32E−04 0.227 0.891 0.168 16 3,318,451 ZNF75A 3′-downstream 9,876 rs10959554 2.33E−04 0.227 0.891 0.076 9 11,121,371 LOC646114 3′-downstream 91,086 rs4474187 2.33E−04 −0.227 0.891 0.188 23 89,042,895 LOC360018 3′-downstream 7,681 rs725224 2.33E−04 0.227 0.891 0.076 12 13,453,789 C12orf36 5′-upstream 32,877 rs9309382 2.34E−04 0.227 0.891 0.202 2 66,218,009 LOC729348 5′-upstream 245,933 rs9937123 2.35E−04 0.227 0.891 0.060 16 86,296,990 KLHDC4 3′-downstream 1,929 rs17131659 2.36E−04 0.227 0.891 0.388 1 84,631,560 UOX intron 0 rs2981317 2.37E−04 0.227 0.891 0.200 8 35,069,374 LOC100133273 3′-downstream 217,603 rs10943011 2.37E−04 0.227 0.891 0.170 6 73,166,765 RIMS1 intron 0 rs11973006 2.38E−04 0.226 0.891 0.253 7 40,604,890 C7orf10 intron 0 rs7040113 2.38E−04 0.226 0.891 0.202 9 3,413,469 RFX3 intron 0 rs12114930 2.41E−04 0.226 0.900 0.430 8 102,621,763 GRHL2 intron 0 rs2717200 2.43E−04 0.232 0.902 0.247 4 112,745,218 LOC132719 5′-upstream 472,872 rs2329152 2.43E−04 0.226 0.902 0.238 13 79,509,454 LOC729479 3′-downstream 10,655 rs17058093 2.43E−04 0.227 0.902 0.083 18 71,620,850 C18orf62 5′-upstream 352,273 rs557874 2.45E−04 0.226 0.904 0.181 9 134,364,266 RP11-738I14.8 intron 0 rs5969778 2.46E−04 −0.227 0.906 0.409 23 16,808,998 RNU4P6 5′-upstream 5,634 rs9928219 2.47E−04 0.226 0.907 0.082 16 5,991,449 A2BP1 5′-upstream 17,684 rs17344511 2.48E−04 −0.226 0.907 0.094 1 165,421,751 LOC391130 5′-upstream 23,053 rs2480679 2.51E−04 0.226 0.919 0.179 1 165,674,141 CD247 intron 0 rs1878269 2.53E−04 0.226 0.923 0.119 3 56,454,506 ERC2 intron 0 rs12127605 2.55E−04 0.228 0.925 0.066 1 120,029,707 PHGDH 5′-upstream 26,326 rs17024410 2.56E−04 −0.226 0.926 0.100 1 213,439,776 KCNK2 intron 0 rs290255 2.58E−04 0.227 0.929 0.168 9 92,691,478 SYK intron 0 rs10513226 2.58E−04 0.226 0.929 0.144 3 145,065,153 LOC257039 intron 0 rs2836257 2.58E−04 −0.227 0.929 0.419 21 38,557,419 LOC441964 intron 0 rs7720273 2.60E−04 −0.226 0.931 0.230 5 113,130,084 YTHDC2 3′-downstream 171,204 rs11006349 2.62E−04 −0.225 0.932 0.392 10 60,457,808 LOC644871 3′-downstream 108,580 rs10516939 2.63E−04 0.225 0.932 0.076 4 94,793,723 GRID2 intron 0 rs1435480 2.63E−04 0.225 0.932 0.076 4 94,769,500 GRID2 intron 0 rs1028182 2.65E−04 0.225 0.932 0.406 1 205,068,502 IL19 intron 0 rs10077572 2.66E−04 0.225 0.932 0.374 5 132,775,906 FSTL4 intron 0 rs780256 2.67E−04 0.225 0.932 0.288 1 231,809,726 KCNK1 5′-upstream 6,647 rs16993361 2.68E−04 0.225 0.932 0.255 22 43,834,071 PHF21B 5′-upstream 49,826 rs4725434 2.69E−04 −0.225 0.932 0.342 7 151,131,312 PRKAG2 intron 0 rs7038965 2.70E−04 0.225 0.932 0.099 9 111,004,281 EPB41L4B intron 0 rs710310 2.70E−04 0.226 0.932 0.443 14 98,719,466 BCL11B intron 0 rs1624327 2.71E−04 0.224 0.932 0.255 9 86,619,110 NTRK2 3′-UTR 0 rs13282927 2.71E−04 0.226 0.932 0.212 8 35,031,277 LOC100133273 3′-downstream 179,506 rs17078688 2.72E−04 0.225 0.932 0.054 6 117,394,116 RFXDC1 3′-downstream 34,109 rs841571 2.72E−04 −0.225 0.932 0.375 1 43,208,491 SLC2A1 5′-upstream 11,403 rs4936507 2.74E−04 0.224 0.932 0.067 11 119,439,773 TRIM29 3′-downstream 47,431 rs11823347 2.75E−04 0.225 0.932 0.084 11 21,170,916 NELL1 intron 0 rs11788925 2.76E−04 0.224 0.932 0.056 9 134,038,799 NTNG2 intron 0 rs953809 2.77E−04 0.225 0.932 0.177 1 165,670,249 CD247 intron 0 rs10506759 2.77E−04 −0.224 0.932 0.426 12 76,670,293 NAV3 5′-upstream 78,907 rs11665524 2.77E−04 0.224 0.932 0.088 18 2,968,535 LPIN2 intron 0 rs6778788 2.77E−04 0.229 0.932 0.321 3 88,422,500 LOC344653 5′-upstream 26,496 rs17714061 2.78E−04 0.224 0.932 0.076 7 39,613,030 RALA 5′-upstream 16,657 rs3114315 2.80E−04 −0.224 0.932 0.357 7 76,719,919 CCDC146 intron 0 rs12677635 2.80E−04 0.224 0.932 0.235 8 88,687,271 LOC642461 5′-upstream 4,113 rs17475516 2.82E−04 0.224 0.932 0.173 14 69,902,232 SYNJ2BP 3′-downstream 734 rs17125238 2.82E−04 −0.224 0.932 0.484 1 101,959,532 RP11-556K13.1 3′-downstream 47,413 rs7556071 2.83E−04 0.225 0.932 0.060 1 188,241,377 LOC647132 Unknown — rs11620973 2.84E−04 0.225 0.932 0.400 14 95,087,805 GLRX5 3′-downstream 6,997 rs17031608 2.85E−04 0.224 0.932 0.205 2 66,216,670 LOC729348 5′-upstream 247,272 rs3848333 2.85E−04 0.225 0.932 0.055 16 10,025,056 GRIN2A intron 0 rs10982373 2.85E−04 0.224 0.932 0.411 9 116,503,083 LOC100129633 intron 0 rs13127174 2.86E−04 0.224 0.932 0.157 4 16,137,569 LDB2 intron 0 rs2816600 2.87E−04 0.224 0.932 0.139 1 43,039,717 CCDC23 3′-downstream 5,603 rs655741 2.87E−04 0.224 0.932 0.139 1 43,046,340 CCDC23 intron 0 rs6441728 2.87E−04 0.224 0.932 0.354 3 104,551,408 LOC644681 3′-downstream 188,760 rs10492841 2.87E−04 −0.224 0.932 0.342 16 6,679,934 A2BP1 intron 0 rs6990941 2.89E−04 −0.223 0.932 0.301 8 89,713,547 LOC100129100 3′-downstream 146,108 rs6965558 2.89E−04 0.228 0.932 0.352 7 1,518,964 INTS1 5′-upstream 5,765 rs6948724 2.90E−04 0.223 0.932 0.255 7 40,622,800 C7orf10 intron 0 rs4245739 2.90E−04 0.223 0.932 0.188 1 202,785,465 MDM4 3′-UTR 0 rs1654531 2.91E−04 0.225 0.932 0.241 19 56,167,461 KLK7 3′-downstream 4,080 rs12080720 2.92E−04 −0.224 0.932 0.462 1 115,823,107 LOC100132332 5′-upstream 85,419 rs10774976 2.93E−04 0.224 0.932 0.098 12 116,922,846 RFC5 5′-upstream 16,047 rs7430477 2.93E−04 0.224 0.932 0.447 3 38,740,494 SCN10A intron 0 rs10841186 2.94E−04 0.224 0.932 0.249 12 8,345,682 LOC100130149 3′-downstream 27,554 rs2498667 2.95E−04 0.223 0.932 0.251 6 139,472,289 HECA 5′-upstream 25,653 rs7717457 2.95E−04 −0.223 0.932 0.310 5 40,923,538 C7 5′-upstream 21,818 rs6884002 2.96E−04 −0.223 0.932 0.099 5 154,872,015 LOC100131033 3′-downstream 18,661 rs957583 2.97E−04 0.223 0.932 0.120 23 108,979,979 LOC392520 5′-upstream 3,220 rs1400558 2.97E−04 −0.223 0.932 0.419 4 148,600,255 EDNRA 5′-upstream 21,320 rs1400560 2.97E−04 −0.223 0.932 0.419 4 148,599,582 EDNRA 5′-upstream 21,993 rs3826884 2.98E−04 0.223 0.932 0.139 19 60,429,993 TMEM86B 3′-UTR 0 rs717695 2.98E−04 −0.223 0.932 0.408 4 156,634,854 TRNAL-UAA 5′-upstream 30,352 rs11587357 3.00E−04 0.223 0.932 0.074 1 95,890,849 LOC729977 5′-upstream 334,442 rs11703864 3.00E−04 0.223 0.932 0.166 22 26,240,759 MN1 3′-downstream 233,506 rs6962918 3.01E−04 0.223 0.932 0.126 7 36,081,241 PP13004 5′-upstream 3,978 rs17253026 3.01E−04 0.223 0.932 0.136 14 51,899,472 PTGER2 3′-downstream 34,398 rs11249617 3.01E−04 0.223 0.932 0.341 5 178,590,767 ADAMTS2 intron 0 rs6840083 3.01E−04 0.223 0.932 0.421 4 183,701,671 ODZ3 intron 0 rs1893636 3.04E−04 0.224 0.932 0.427 18 57,282,780 CDH20 5′-upstream 25,975 rs6804165 3.06E−04 0.223 0.932 0.107 3 11,016,808 SLC6A1 intron 0 rs7688236 3.06E−04 0.223 0.932 0.099 4 87,023,102 ARHGAP24 intron 0 rs10133760 3.06E−04 −0.223 0.932 0.388 14 95,088,964 GLRX5 3′-downstream 8,156 rs1712563 3.08E−04 0.222 0.932 0.352 3 108,135,110 LOC100128733 3′-downstream 84,301 rs10937476 3.08E−04 0.223 0.932 0.255 3 192,514,654 CCDC50 5′-upstream 14,914 rs7539399 3.08E−04 0.222 0.932 0.269 1 202,856,667 LRRN2 intron 0 rs16531 3.09E−04 0.223 0.932 0.252 17 34,603,181 CACNB1 intron 0 rs11848605 3.11E−04 0.224 0.932 0.241 14 43,266,962 ARHGAP16P 3′-downstream 131,674 rs39637 3.13E−04 0.222 0.932 0.253 3 22,842,432 LOC100129341 5′-upstream 78,195 rs7432616 3.13E−04 0.222 0.932 0.153 3 117,908,124 LOC285194 5′-upstream 5,904 rs7758611 3.14E−04 0.222 0.932 0.078 6 54,407,429 TINAG 3′-downstream 44,557 rs11849993 3.14E−04 0.223 0.932 0.243 14 43,268,583 ARHGAP16P 3′-downstream 133,295 rs28410948 3.15E−04 −0.222 0.932 0.469 1 19,061,043 ALDH4A1 3′-downstream 9,470 rs2503661 3.16E−04 0.222 0.932 0.222 6 92,817,083 LOC100129847 5′-upstream 234,231 rs2819360 3.17E−04 0.222 0.932 0.341 1 200,243,877 ELF3 5′-UTR 0 rs644809 3.18E−04 0.222 0.932 0.264 9 198,549 C9orf66 3′-downstream 4,913 rs2139108 3.18E−04 −0.222 0.932 0.267 16 78,827,814 LOC729847 intron 0 rs4697063 3.19E−04 0.222 0.932 0.359 4 24,147,671 DHX15 intron 0 rs2521676 3.19E−04 0.223 0.932 0.287 16 26,802,777 C16orf82 5′-upstream 182,752 rs6892211 3.19E−04 0.222 0.932 0.096 5 8,557,567 LOC729506 5′-upstream 42,799 rs4733581 3.20E−04 −0.222 0.932 0.371 8 129,016,957 PVT1 intron 0 rs7050429 3.20E−04 0.224 0.932 0.147 23 110,743,608 LOC643873 3′-downstream 4,662 rs10222063 3.21E−04 −0.222 0.932 0.310 21 41,216,672 DSCAM 5′-upstream 75,763 rs6869955 3.23E−04 0.222 0.932 0.099 5 55,400,449 ANKRD55 3′-downstream 30,815 rs9478311 3.23E−04 −0.222 0.932 0.413 6 150,328,828 ULBP1 intron 0 rs2501830 3.24E−04 0.222 0.932 0.119 23 108,965,630 LOC392520 5′-upstream 17,569 rs966951 3.24E−04 0.222 0.932 0.119 23 108,979,489 LOC392520 5′-upstream 3,710 rs2743218 3.24E−04 0.222 0.932 0.388 1 18,866,737 PAX7 intron 0 rs11025102 3.24E−04 0.222 0.932 0.332 11 19,307,344 LOC390102 5′-upstream 53,953 rs6449478 3.26E−04 −0.224 0.932 0.267 5 59,909,466 DEPDC1B 3′-downstream 19,030 rs2455377 3.26E−04 −0.222 0.932 0.484 5 55,956,448 LOC441073 5′-upstream 119,755 rs3915861 3.26E−04 0.222 0.932 0.368 9 78,082,346 LOC100133206 3′-downstream 8,884 rs16942674 3.27E−04 0.222 0.932 0.063 17 53,542,806 DYNLL2 3′-downstream 20,996 rs1872366 3.28E−04 0.225 0.932 0.169 12 30,580,467 IPO8 3′-downstream 92,722 rs2812617 3.29E−04 0.221 0.932 0.123 10 34,113,351 PARD3 3′-downstream 326,752 rs3910572 3.29E−04 −0.221 0.932 0.397 13 79,518,672 LOC729485 3′-downstream 8,738 rs812086 3.30E−04 0.222 0.932 0.353 11 19,279,293 LOC390102 5′-upstream 25,902 rs6578080 3.31E−04 0.222 0.932 0.228 8 141,291,830 NIBP intron 0 rs6489900 3.31E−04 −0.222 0.932 0.357 12 112,439,970 LHX5 5′-upstream 45,710 rs7061836 3.32E−04 0.221 0.932 0.152 23 110,733,178 LOC643873 3′-downstream 15,092 rs1376071 3.35E−04 −0.221 0.932 0.422 15 35,027,798 MEIS2 intron 0 rs17151081 3.35E−04 0.222 0.932 0.101 7 76,755,796 CCDC146 intron 0 rs6979107 3.36E−04 −0.223 0.932 0.147 7 64,508,216 ZNF92 3′-downstream 4,783 rs1220854 3.36E−04 0.222 0.932 0.498 4 70,846,893 CSN2 3′-downstream 8,671 rs12621560 3.36E−04 0.222 0.932 0.478 2 74,787,875 SEMA4F 3′-downstream 25,182 rs2243668 3.37E−04 0.221 0.932 0.157 10 33,603,899 NRP1 intron 0 rs7100693 3.37E−04 0.221 0.932 0.063 10 64,590,594 JMJD1C 3′-downstream 6,397 rs6567819 3.44E−04 0.221 0.932 0.119 23 108,991,343 LOC392520 3′-downstream 7,539 rs283128 3.46E−04 0.221 0.932 0.464 5 32,102,829 PDZD2 intron 0 rs10962837 3.46E−04 −0.221 0.932 0.312 9 1,704,649 SMARCA2 5′-upstream 300,693 rs881790 3.46E−04 0.221 0.932 0.195 4 16,147,055 LDB2 intron 0 rs4455605 3.47E−04 0.221 0.932 0.265 5 40,184,520 LOC285634 5′-upstream 391,073 rs1946944 3.47E−04 0.221 0.932 0.218 8 96,171,901 LOC100130098 5′-upstream 16,876 rs4734298 3.47E−04 0.221 0.932 0.218 8 96,170,962 LOC100130098 5′-upstream 15,937 rs10124468 3.48E−04 0.221 0.932 0.115 9 11,235,830 LOC646114 3′-downstream 205,545 rs17060993 3.48E−04 0.221 0.932 0.058 8 26,978,029 LOC100132229 5′-upstream 52,134 rs11696891 3.48E−04 −0.221 0.932 0.422 20 54,876,477 PTMAP6 5′-upstream 166,484 rs994772 3.49E−04 0.225 0.932 0.143 4 100,546,687 ADH7 3′-downstream 5,754 rs1469095 3.49E−04 −0.221 0.932 0.293 5 62,019,604 IPO11 3′-downstream 59,439 rs2777508 3.49E−04 0.223 0.932 0.119 10 34,112,449 PARD3 3′-downstream 327,654 rs8053650 3.50E−04 −0.220 0.932 0.222 16 11,450,946 LOC400499 intron 0 rs10805350 3.50E−04 0.222 0.932 0.313 4 16,140,499 LDB2 intron 0 rs4845144 3.50E−04 0.222 0.932 0.458 1 205,083,271 IL19 3′-downstream 324 rs1755938 3.51E−04 0.220 0.932 0.182 9 92,684,769 SYK intron 0 rs10833372 3.51E−04 0.221 0.932 0.478 11 20,628,328 SLC6A5 intron 0 rs1477357 3.51E−04 −0.220 0.932 0.206 5 62,003,267 IPO11 3′-downstream 43,102 rs12494229 3.52E−04 0.221 0.932 0.317 3 190,356,633 LOC100132319 5′-upstream 5,014 rs649870 3.52E−04 −0.220 0.932 0.469 11 118,476,461 DPAGT1 intron 0 rs17616768 3.52E−04 −0.220 0.932 0.130 14 82,235,273 ENSAP2 5′-upstream 5,896 rs12581982 3.53E−04 0.221 0.932 0.076 12 13,452,773 C12orf36 5′-upstream 31,861 rs6492840 3.53E−04 0.220 0.932 0.464 13 95,637,435 HS6ST3 intron 0 rs2305089 3.54E−04 −0.222 0.932 0.418 6 166,499,260 T missense 0 rs6678565 3.54E−04 −0.220 0.932 0.087 1 213,429,084 KCNK2 intron 0 rs7657364 3.55E−04 0.220 0.932 0.419 4 24,181,029 DHX15 intron 0 rs11135305 3.56E−04 0.220 0.932 0.065 5 163,529,934 LOC391844 5′-upstream 402,292 rs6500550 3.57E−04 0.221 0.932 0.486 16 3,686,242 TRAP1 intron 0 rs6907305 3.57E−04 0.220 0.932 0.121 6 21,505,616 CDKAL1 3′-downstream 165,873 rs12606882 3.57E−04 0.221 0.932 0.404 18 27,743,193 KIAA1012 intron 0 rs4634366 3.59E−04 −0.222 0.932 0.272 5 169,523,385 KRT18P41 5′-upstream 14,507 rs7939727 3.59E−04 0.220 0.932 0.061 11 11,734,325 USP47 5′-upstream 85,221 rs7397057 3.59E−04 −0.220 0.932 0.422 12 131,201,474 NOC4L intron 0 rs17379645 3.60E−04 0.221 0.932 0.058 1 162,614,736 LOC729952 3′-downstream 20,655 rs11252650 3.61E−04 0.222 0.932 0.097 10 4,704,053 LOC338588 3′-downstream 9,442 rs1155097 3.63E−04 0.220 0.932 0.233 4 156,634,165 TRNAL-UAA 5′-upstream 29,663 rs10518301 3.64E−04 −0.220 0.932 0.339 4 120,454,573 FABP2 3′-downstream 3,280 rs290226 3.65E−04 0.220 0.932 0.178 9 92,677,103 SYK intron 0 rs6578084 3.66E−04 −0.220 0.932 0.366 8 141,311,849 NIBP intron 0 rs10494457 3.66E−04 0.220 0.932 0.254 1 164,528,747 LOC284685 5′-upstream 15,240 rs7552585 3.67E−04 −0.220 0.932 0.097 1 203,675,794 MIRN135B 3′-downstream 8,259 rs1861595 3.67E−04 −0.220 0.932 0.395 12 15,552,491 PTPRO intron 0 rs2631246 3.67E−04 0.220 0.932 0.356 4 103,098,344 BANK1 intron 0 rs12650712 3.68E−04 0.220 0.932 0.159 4 165,672,051 LOC100133261 5′-upstream 65,239 rs3091377 3.68E−04 −0.220 0.932 0.101 22 38,527,581 ENTHD1 intron 0 rs2835680 3.69E−04 0.220 0.932 0.415 21 37,526,440 DSCR3 intron 0 rs16878245 3.69E−04 −0.220 0.932 0.137 4 10,730,190 LOC643446 5′-upstream 241,891 rs9806917 3.71E−04 0.220 0.936 0.054 16 23,298,357 SCNN1B intron 0 rs16907672 3.72E−04 0.220 0.936 0.089 11 21,184,140 NELL1 intron 0 rs10965572 3.73E−04 0.219 0.936 0.191 9 23,032,805 LOC646609 3′-downstream 294,529 rs9651539 3.73E−04 −0.219 0.936 0.341 10 13,519,502 C10orf30 3′-downstream 988 rs12581742 3.75E−04 0.220 0.938 0.074 12 13,453,060 C12orf36 5′-upstream 32,148 rs2842721 3.76E−04 0.220 0.939 0.396 1 205,254,830 C1orf116 3′-downstream 3,659 rs13114034 3.80E−04 0.219 0.944 0.076 4 6,575,335 PPP2R2C 5′-upstream 50,108 rs17397811 3.81E−04 0.220 0.944 0.373 8 102,618,040 GRHL2 intron 0 rs1552290 3.81E−04 −0.219 0.944 0.179 1 101,873,811 RP11-556K13.1 3′-downstream 133,134 rs3848332 3.81E−04 0.220 0.944 0.058 16 10,025,038 GRIN2A intron 0 rs2467383 3.82E−04 0.219 0.944 0.278 11 34,153,060 ABTB2 intron 0 rs6918518 3.83E−04 −0.222 0.944 0.487 6 158,850,684 TULP4 3′-UTR 0 rs2922388 3.84E−04 −0.222 0.944 0.101 8 137,005,767 KHDRBS3 3′-downstream 276,736 rs11627491 3.85E−04 −0.220 0.944 0.113 14 82,278,510 LOC730105 3′-downstream 46,045 rs2969778 3.86E−04 0.219 0.944 0.164 2 47,759,696 LOC285053 3′-downstream 11,587 rs12546486 3.86E−04 0.219 0.944 0.327 8 95,195,882 CDH17 3′-downstream 12,684 rs856119 3.86E−04 0.220 0.944 0.195 1 157,166,371 PYHIN1 5′-upstream 1,595 rs7690945 3.86E−04 −0.221 0.944 0.425 4 155,213,440 DCHS2 3′-downstream 161,698 rs10509583 3.88E−04 0.219 0.944 0.097 10 91,634,406 hCG_2024094 3′-downstream 46,965 rs12932835 3.90E−04 0.219 0.944 0.058 16 10,019,526 GRIN2A intron 0 rs1046623 3.92E−04 0.219 0.944 0.372 16 83,157,772 COTL1 3′-UTR 0 rs1328379 3.95E−04 0.219 0.944 0.170 6 165,923,631 PDE10A intron 0 rs12291695 3.95E−04 −0.219 0.944 0.317 11 12,752,238 TEAD1 intron 0 rs9324519 3.96E−04 −0.219 0.944 0.375 8 141,312,047 NIBP intron 0 rs5888 3.97E−04 0.221 0.944 0.304 12 123,850,701 SCARB1 synonymous 0 rs2883036 3.99E−04 −0.221 0.944 0.361 1 205,091,385 IL19 3′-downstream 8,438 rs1426227 3.99E−04 0.219 0.944 0.107 18 2,157,478 LOC100128360 5′-upstream 235,792 rs11643910 3.99E−04 0.218 0.944 0.065 16 80,997,215 CDH13 5′-upstream 220,864 rs1032915 4.02E−04 0.218 0.944 0.397 18 73,608,817 BDP1P 5′-upstream 330,525 rs2381623 4.02E−04 −0.218 0.944 0.339 9 7,502,409 LOC158345 5′-upstream 34,028 rs12331227 4.02E−04 −0.221 0.944 0.463 4 30,827,466 LOC645716 3′-downstream 5,071 rs870522 4.02E−04 0.218 0.944 0.363 14 51,028,639 FRMD6 intron 0 rs12154459 4.02E−04 0.219 0.944 0.316 7 145,885,441 CNTNAP2 intron 0 rs1528474 4.03E−04 0.218 0.944 0.150 15 53,130,237 C15orf15 3′-downstream 130,567 rs1699195 4.04E−04 0.218 0.944 0.072 1 211,596,070 LOC643330 3′-downstream 72,604 rs1455096 4.04E−04 0.218 0.944 0.287 6 67,460,312 NUFIP1P 5′-upstream 598,780 rs895851 4.04E−04 −0.218 0.944 0.110 8 137,012,462 KHDRBS3 3′-downstream 283,431 rs16944718 4.04E−04 −0.219 0.944 0.133 17 11,274,781 FLJ45455 intron 0 rs16952353 4.05E−04 0.219 0.944 0.112 17 2,588,038 LOC100128142 5′-upstream 2,849 rs999787 4.06E−04 0.219 0.944 0.158 15 53,079,743 C15orf15 3′-downstream 181,061 rs1379694 4.06E−04 0.219 0.944 0.346 3 88,448,629 LOC344653 5′-upstream 367 rs431791 4.07E−04 0.218 0.944 0.179 9 135,841,095 VAV2 intron 0 rs1413730 4.07E−04 0.218 0.944 0.065 6 117,389,088 RFXDC1 3′-downstream 29,081 rs9979015 4.09E−04 0.218 0.944 0.278 21 35,157,438 RUNX1 intron 0 rs9866355 4.09E−04 0.218 0.944 0.356 3 117,909,276 LOC285194 5′-upstream 4,752 rs3886706 4.09E−04 0.218 0.944 0.491 1 111,590,302 CHI3L2 3′-downstream 2,717 rs17047903 4.12E−04 0.218 0.944 0.428 3 68,785,403 PSMC1P 3′-downstream 16,220 rs302828 4.12E−04 −0.219 0.944 0.117 19 61,102,152 NLRP13 intron 0 rs10499617 4.16E−04 0.219 0.944 0.049 7 40,749,097 C7orf10 intron 0 rs4733583 4.16E−04 −0.218 0.944 0.379 8 129,017,407 PVT1 intron 0 rs11731134 4.17E−04 −0.218 0.944 0.491 4 148,599,064 EDNRA 5′-upstream 22,511 rs4835405 4.17E−04 −0.218 0.944 0.491 4 148,598,134 EDNRA 5′-upstream 23,441 rs10117265 4.18E−04 0.218 0.944 0.110 9 100,135,923 GABBR2 intron 0 rs4384204 4.18E−04 −0.219 0.944 0.345 1 213,478,228 KCNK2 3′-downstream 1,169 rs12678629 4.19E−04 0.218 0.944 0.215 8 35,025,990 LOC100133273 3′-downstream 174,219 rs7547418 4.19E−04 0.218 0.944 0.233 1 164,542,624 LOC284685 5′-upstream 29,117 rs4953672 4.20E−04 −0.220 0.944 0.482 2 42,953,942 LOC100128048 5′-upstream 45,681 rs10900418 4.20E−04 0.218 0.944 0.309 1 202,880,789 LRRN2 intron 0 rs7920683 4.21E−04 0.218 0.944 0.435 10 20,429,242 PLXDC2 intron 0 rs7157515 4.21E−04 0.218 0.944 0.128 14 53,558,366 LOC645560 5′-upstream 29,903 rs6901033 4.21E−04 0.218 0.944 0.061 6 117,373,420 RFXDC1 3′-downstream 13,413 rs7765150 4.25E−04 0.217 0.944 0.056 6 50,271,304 DEFB112 5′-upstream 146,981 rs12810670 4.26E−04 −0.219 0.944 0.278 12 76,732,425 NAV3 5′-upstream 16,775 rs9550637 4.27E−04 −0.218 0.944 0.442 13 19,810,527 CRYL1 3′-downstream 65,279 rs11722847 4.28E−04 −0.218 0.944 0.339 4 120,452,569 FABP2 3′-downstream 5,284 rs2197164 4.29E−04 0.217 0.944 0.065 18 65,279,551 DOK6 intron 0 rs6578233 4.32E−04 −0.218 0.944 0.221 8 136,447,775 LOC286094 3′-downstream 69,795 rs247325 4.33E−04 0.218 0.944 0.276 12 14,812,901 HIST4H4 3′-downstream 2,020 rs784235 4.34E−04 −0.217 0.944 0.112 18 51,574,142 LOC100132501 3′-downstream 25,133 rs871503 4.36E−04 0.217 0.944 0.330 5 173,534,310 HMP19 3′-downstream 65,522 rs4739519 4.36E−04 0.217 0.944 0.347 8 37,532,017 LOC100128034 intron 0 rs6005031 4.40E−04 0.217 0.944 0.309 22 25,095,167 SEZ6L intron 0 rs2387137 4.40E−04 0.217 0.944 0.375 19 55,829,472 SYT3 intron 0 rs2564942 4.41E−04 −0.217 0.944 0.430 3 53,114,546 RFT1 intron 0 rs2559658 4.42E−04 0.217 0.944 0.088 10 79,415,275 POLR3A intron 0 rs17678419 4.44E−04 0.217 0.944 0.054 12 113,486,329 LOC652191 3′-downstream 14,280 rs7866090 4.45E−04 0.217 0.944 0.103 9 11,130,883 LOC646114 3′-downstream 100,598 rs10075142 4.46E−04 0.217 0.944 0.074 5 73,962,740 ENC1 intron 0 rs1393155 4.47E−04 −0.222 0.944 0.319 5 40,925,894 C7 5′-upstream 19,462 rs9992415 4.48E−04 −0.217 0.944 0.460 4 30,827,933 LOC645716 3′-downstream 5,538 rs7775551 4.48E−04 0.217 0.944 0.162 6 17,155,652 FLJ23152 5′-upstream 80,496 rs11190790 4.49E−04 −0.217 0.944 0.294 10 102,762,273 PDZD7 3′-downstream 4,806 rs9405834 4.50E−04 0.220 0.944 0.325 6 5,402,826 FARS2 intron 0 rs10125981 4.52E−04 0.217 0.944 0.465 9 101,735,129 STX17 intron 0 rs2839025 4.53E−04 0.216 0.944 0.458 21 46,112,881 PCBP3 intron 0 rs633959 4.54E−04 −0.217 0.944 0.388 23 120,477,514 LOC158714 5′-upstream 310,479 rs17138853 4.54E−04 0.216 0.944 0.076 5 115,450,634 COMMD10 intron 0 rs1333165 4.55E−04 0.217 0.944 0.359 13 64,944,921 STARP1 5′-upstream 161,834 rs6958942 4.55E−04 0.217 0.944 0.114 7 76,755,130 CCDC146 intron 0 rs3831958 4.55E−04 0.216 0.944 0.171 1 165,666,815 CD247 3′-UTR 0 rs13066320 4.55E−04 0.216 0.944 0.209 3 117,888,889 LOC285194 5′-upstream 25,139 rs10500136 4.58E−04 0.216 0.944 0.166 7 142,724,366 CLCN1 intron 0 rs17397776 4.58E−04 0.216 0.944 0.319 8 102,617,910 GRHL2 intron 0 rs16948648 4.58E−04 0.216 0.944 0.433 17 45,510,770 ITGA3 intron 0 rs3755913 4.59E−04 −0.216 0.944 0.137 4 81,324,786 PRDM8 5′-upstream 662 rs824725 4.60E−04 0.218 0.944 0.107 12 40,772,739 GLT8D3 intron 0 rs1286147 4.60E−04 0.217 0.944 0.261 14 90,537,320 RPS6KA5 intron 0 rs2718016 4.60E−04 0.217 0.944 0.162 7 36,051,448 LOC100129326 Unknown — rs9518363 4.62E−04 0.216 0.944 0.408 13 100,733,288 NALCN intron 0 rs12632003 4.65E−04 0.216 0.944 0.303 3 72,371,435 RYBP 3′-downstream 135,003 rs6688859 4.65E−04 0.216 0.944 0.229 1 113,577,284 LOC643441 5′-upstream 26,886 rs12284447 4.66E−04 −0.216 0.944 0.097 11 4,507,612 OR52M2P 5′-upstream 13,782 rs12347985 4.66E−04 0.216 0.944 0.203 9 3,392,590 RFX3 intron 0 rs1414402 4.66E−04 0.216 0.944 0.458 9 132,911,893 LAMC3 intron 0 rs10899613 4.67E−04 0.218 0.944 0.328 11 69,570,122 LOC100127946 3′-downstream 29,518 rs6968662 4.67E−04 0.216 0.944 0.060 7 22,487,980 MGC87042 3′-downstream 4,967 rs1603165 4.68E−04 0.217 0.944 0.158 4 135,308,676 PABPC4L 3′-downstream 28,262 rs11786195 4.68E−04 0.216 0.944 0.204 8 35,020,843 LOC100133273 3′-downstream 169,072 rs9323262 4.69E−04 0.216 0.944 0.274 14 53,863,964 CDKN3 5′-upstream 69,512 rs10849083 4.69E−04 −0.217 0.944 0.185 12 4,512,833 C12orf4 intron 0 rs919676 4.70E−04 0.217 0.944 0.297 1 164,534,461 LOC284685 5′-upstream 20,954 rs11022188 4.70E−04 0.216 0.944 0.129 11 12,105,328 MICAL2 intron 0 rs35749343 4.71E−04 0.216 0.944 0.056 17 39,942,006 GPATCH8 5′-upstream 5,678 rs6474174 4.71E−04 0.217 0.944 0.078 8 39,718,465 ADAM2 3′-downstream 1,946 rs17046758 4.74E−04 −0.216 0.944 0.085 4 166,716,836 LOC402191 5′-upstream 25,192 rs6489016 4.74E−04 0.216 0.944 0.428 12 124,862,044 TMEM132B 3′-downstream 152,502 rs7846979 4.75E−04 0.216 0.944 0.424 9 116,472,765 LOC100129633 intron 0 rs10886992 4.76E−04 0.216 0.944 0.316 10 123,572,169 ATE1 intron 0 rs246274 4.77E−04 0.216 0.944 0.125 5 122,308,702 SNX24 intron 0 rs647535 4.78E−04 0.217 0.944 0.418 18 57,295,795 CDH20 5′-upstream 12,960 rs6669771 4.78E−04 −0.218 0.944 0.064 1 114,421,345 SYT6 3′-downstream 12,092 rs12145049 4.79E−04 0.215 0.944 0.114 1 202,044,364 ZC3H11A intron 0 rs6817351 4.79E−04 0.215 0.944 0.085 4 94,761,025 GRID2 intron 0 rs6842880 4.79E−04 0.215 0.944 0.085 4 94,761,175 GRID2 intron 0 rs7945719 4.79E−04 −0.217 0.944 0.323 11 12,705,396 TEAD1 intron 0 rs12331869 4.80E−04 0.216 0.944 0.215 4 55,706,906 KDR 5′-upstream 20,387 rs12962880 4.80E−04 −0.217 0.944 0.097 18 45,714,978 MYO5B intron 0 rs7814976 4.80E−04 −0.221 0.944 0.334 8 141,306,070 NIBP intron 0 rs1873418 4.80E−04 0.215 0.944 0.087 3 195,146,719 LOC100128023 3′-downstream 46,724 rs12889132 4.80E−04 0.215 0.944 0.076 14 51,826,994 LOC100131689 3′-downstream 1,177 rs366178 4.80E−04 −0.215 0.944 0.462 8 8,808,564 MFHAS1 5′-upstream 20,023 rs400404 4.80E−04 −0.215 0.944 0.462 8 8,807,864 MFHAS1 5′-upstream 19,323 rs6788478 4.81E−04 0.217 0.944 0.354 3 104,561,945 LOC644681 3′-downstream 178,223 rs17095581 4.81E−04 0.215 0.944 0.056 14 97,098,999 LOC730217 intron 0 rs10468282 4.81E−04 0.215 0.944 0.135 16 53,547,149 LOC100132339 5′-upstream 15,852 rs8054030 4.81E−04 0.215 0.944 0.135 16 53,545,075 LOC100132339 5′-upstream 13,778 rs2140501 4.82E−04 0.215 0.944 0.164 2 167,911,362 hCG_1660379 intron 0 rs1627784 4.82E−04 0.215 0.944 0.338 9 86,618,686 NTRK2 3′-UTR 0 rs17138063 4.82E−04 0.216 0.944 0.181 17 32,264,382 LOC727862 3′-downstream 28,667 rs2044002 4.85E−04 −0.215 0.944 0.399 10 55,708,837 PCDH15 intron 0 rs9691998 4.86E−04 0.215 0.944 0.166 7 77,986,916 MAGI2 intron 0 rs2016644 4.86E−04 0.216 0.944 0.087 7 96,433,985 FLJ34048 3′-downstream 36,910 rs10515468 4.87E−04 0.217 0.944 0.044 5 134,572,389 H2AFY 3′-downstream 125,581 rs4129316 4.88E−04 0.218 0.944 0.172 18 20,937,539 ZNF521 intron 0 rs6490281 4.88E−04 0.215 0.944 0.392 12 118,937,209 CCDC64 intron 0 rs2110586 4.88E−04 0.215 0.944 0.099 19 17,818,309 JAK3 intron 0 rs4645284 4.91E−04 −0.215 0.944 0.469 4 118,614,104 NT5C3P1 3′-downstream 101,283 rs838623 4.92E−04 0.215 0.944 0.148 3 144,671,616 SLC9A9 intron 0 rs3740873 4.92E−04 −0.216 0.944 0.495 11 20,626,016 SLC6A5 intron 0 rs2047422 4.93E−04 0.215 0.944 0.350 1 55,484,555 LOC645506 3′-downstream 22,922 rs7142654 4.94E−04 0.215 0.944 0.087 14 88,473,343 TRNAA-AGC 5′-upstream 41,852 rs7257500 4.95E−04 0.215 0.944 0.193 19 2,570,143 GNG7 intron 0 rs7182363 4.95E−04 −0.215 0.944 0.184 15 68,295,072 TLE3 5′-upstream 117,762 rs2836994 4.95E−04 0.216 0.944 0.311 21 39,669,876 WRB 5′-upstream 4,264 rs2815832 4.95E−04 0.215 0.944 0.168 1 202,883,863 LRRN2 intron 0 rs17734826 4.96E−04 0.216 0.944 0.071 12 113,473,404 LOC652191 3′-downstream 1,355 rs33219 4.96E−04 0.218 0.944 0.165 12 30,960,265 TSPAN11 5′-upstream 10,840 rs10202724 4.97E−04 0.216 0.944 0.364 2 222,880,471 LOC440934 5′-upstream 9,168 rs13222164 4.97E−04 0.215 0.944 0.150 7 108,885,600 LOC100128056 5′-upstream 380,818 rs6432096 4.97E−04 0.215 0.944 0.383 2 10,478,834 HPCAL1 intron 0 rs2581829 4.98E−04 −0.215 0.944 0.430 3 53,108,566 RFT1 intron 0 rs10790715 4.99E−04 0.215 0.944 0.161 11 124,298,892 HEPACAM missense 0 rs488787 5.00E−04 0.215 0.944 0.293 9 202,908 C9orf66 3′-downstream 554 rs7234341 5.00E−04 0.215 0.944 0.404 18 27,768,263 KIAA1012 intron 0 rs7234798 5.00E−04 0.215 0.944 0.404 18 27,731,401 KIAA1012 intron 0 rs838636 5.00E−04 0.215 0.944 0.146 3 144,681,492 SLC9A9 intron 0 rs838637 5.00E−04 0.215 0.944 0.146 3 144,681,741 SLC9A9 intron 0 rs9525149 5.00E−04 0.215 0.944 0.491 13 95,653,783 HS6ST3 intron 0 rs640520 5.01E−04 −0.215 0.944 0.234 11 87,646,776 CTSC 3′-downstream 19,632 rs17139455 5.03E−04 0.215 0.944 0.078 5 115,668,006 COMMD10 3′-downstream 11,126 rs17139495 5.03E−04 0.215 0.944 0.078 5 115,684,720 COMMD10 3′-downstream 27,840 rs838622 5.03E−04 0.215 0.944 0.149 3 144,671,246 SLC9A9 intron 0 rs9549100 5.03E−04 0.215 0.944 0.177 13 39,666,838 FOXO1 3′-downstream 360,963 rs7248157 5.04E−04 0.215 0.944 0.107 19 41,026,442 NPHS1 intron 0 rs6917844 5.04E−04 0.215 0.944 0.182 6 165,928,377 PDE10A intron 0 rs2836431 5.05E−04 0.215 0.944 0.113 21 38,771,787 ERG intron 0 rs134784 5.05E−04 −0.215 0.944 0.224 22 25,982,075 LOC100130624 5′-upstream 368,531 rs11033637 5.06E−04 −0.215 0.944 0.464 11 36,436,365 FLJ14213 intron 0 rs1256066 5.07E−04 0.215 0.944 0.193 14 63,768,644 ESR2 intron 0 rs11700554 5.08E−04 −0.215 0.944 0.435 21 46,203,918 PCBP3 3′-downstream 17,123 rs7102231 5.09E−04 0.215 0.944 0.127 11 3,359,053 LOC650368 intron 0 rs7966890 5.09E−04 0.217 0.944 0.338 12 82,112,052 LOC401725 3′-downstream 41,952 rs4786181 5.09E−04 −0.215 0.944 0.399 16 7,535,679 A2BP1 intron 0 rs9635917 5.09E−04 0.214 0.944 0.363 18 27,760,837 KIAA1012 intron 0 rs1246386 5.10E−04 0.214 0.944 0.469 1 84,639,736 DNASE2B intron 0 rs1645519 5.10E−04 −0.216 0.944 0.267 5 40,913,936 CARD6 3′-downstream 22,723 rs5957355 5.10E−04 0.214 0.944 0.213 23 119,338,041 FAM70A 5′-upstream 8,622 rs6433815 5.11E−04 −0.214 0.944 0.368 2 180,517,361 KIAA1604 3′-downstream 488 rs17655198 5.15E−04 0.214 0.944 0.181 8 139,244,364 FAM135B intron 0 rs11726299 5.15E−04 −0.214 0.944 0.190 4 183,556,319 ODZ3 intron 0 rs2930579 5.16E−04 0.214 0.944 0.238 15 23,392,329 ATP10A 3′-downstream 82,623 rs11004392 5.17E−04 0.220 0.944 0.091 10 56,002,909 PCDH15 intron 0 rs12277777 5.17E−04 0.214 0.944 0.097 11 21,891,492 TMEM16E 5′-upstream 279,806 rs10584 5.17E−04 −0.215 0.944 0.469 15 88,129,555 ANPEP 3′-UTR 0 rs16847359 5.18E−04 0.214 0.944 0.056 2 163,379,281 KCNH7 intron 0 rs10735299 5.18E−04 0.214 0.944 0.058 12 76,695,128 NAV3 5′-upstream 54,072 rs2249599 5.19E−04 −0.215 0.944 0.251 21 36,281,873 RPL23AP3 3′-downstream 28,220 rs2535358 5.19E−04 0.215 0.944 0.413 18 57,293,930 CDH20 5′-upstream 14,825 rs363624 5.20E−04 0.214 0.944 0.487 2 74,784,350 SEMA4F 3′-downstream 21,657 rs323719 5.22E−04 0.214 0.944 0.132 1 43,043,515 CCDC23 3′-downstream 1,805 rs4140770 5.22E−04 0.214 0.944 0.267 7 55,108,970 EGFR intron 0 rs3927807 5.23E−04 −0.216 0.944 0.311 11 66,755,431 FBXL11 intron 0 rs12712919 5.24E−04 0.214 0.944 0.381 2 44,629,187 C2orf34 intron 0 rs139915 5.26E−04 −0.214 0.944 0.395 22 39,050,909 TNRC6B 3′-UTR 0 rs4799933 5.26E−04 −0.214 0.944 0.141 18 33,322,457 BRUNOL4 intron 0 rs3114316 5.27E−04 −0.214 0.944 0.341 7 76,720,858 CCDC146 intron 0 rs17783784 5.27E−04 −0.214 0.944 0.154 7 64,539,287 ZNF92 3′-downstream 35,854 rs1994474 5.30E−04 0.214 0.944 0.397 12 26,838,121 ITPR2 intron 0 rs4461463 5.30E−04 0.214 0.944 0.054 3 152,201,282 CLRN1 5′-upstream 27,806 rs966957 5.31E−04 0.214 0.944 0.305 17 47,543,904 CA10 intron 0 rs12921960 5.32E−04 0.214 0.944 0.209 16 6,639,750 A2BP1 intron 0 rs7695937 5.32E−04 −0.214 0.944 0.284 4 7,584,470 SORCS2 intron 0 rs7026133 5.32E−04 0.214 0.944 0.130 9 32,409,461 ACO1 intron 0 rs658312 5.33E−04 0.215 0.944 0.163 11 78,308,368 ODZ4 5′-upstream 107,535 rs271970 5.33E−04 0.214 0.944 0.373 20 57,469,557 LOC645605 intron 0 rs11771918 5.34E−04 −0.214 0.944 0.153 7 64,538,847 ZNF92 3′-downstream 35,414 rs2729076 5.35E−04 0.214 0.944 0.413 3 491,255 CHL1 3′-downstream 65,157 rs3114314 5.36E−04 −0.215 0.944 0.338 7 76,719,565 CCDC146 intron 0 rs2837002 5.36E−04 0.214 0.944 0.308 21 39,685,856 WRB intron 0 rs10124457 5.36E−04 0.214 0.944 0.400 9 2,338,820 SMARCA2 3′-downstream 155,196 rs2226567 5.37E−04 0.214 0.944 0.179 11 105,186,923 GRIA4 intron 0 rs12612483 5.37E−04 0.214 0.944 0.193 2 122,770,055 LOC728241 3′-downstream 91,149 rs1808458 5.39E−04 0.214 0.944 0.054 2 118,595,723 INSIG2 3′-downstream 11,656 rs6948900 5.40E−04 0.214 0.944 0.289 7 40,585,520 C7orf10 intron 0 rs10088287 5.40E−04 0.216 0.944 0.068 8 39,718,049 ADAM2 3′-downstream 2,362 rs11146187 5.41E−04 0.214 0.944 0.144 10 133,771,375 JAKMIP3 intron 0 rs2143361 5.41E−04 0.214 0.944 0.402 6 9,278,882 LOC389365 3′-downstream 79,742 rs7749385 5.42E−04 0.214 0.944 0.346 6 141,350,701 LOC729076 5′-upstream 498,334 rs7090540 5.43E−04 −0.215 0.944 0.062 10 20,958,985 NEBL 3′-downstream 151,108 rs3776362 5.43E−04 0.214 0.944 0.080 5 142,379,050 ARHGAP26 intron 0 rs3934816 5.44E−04 0.213 0.944 0.399 11 11,488,807 GALNTL4 intron 0 rs857395 5.46E−04 0.214 0.944 0.433 10 55,759,269 PCDH15 intron 0 rs4606763 5.46E−04 −0.213 0.944 0.220 17 6,017,765 LOC100132641 3′-downstream 41,585 rs4357753 5.47E−04 −0.213 0.944 0.141 12 111,225,092 C12orf51 intron 0 rs2331548 5.47E−04 0.213 0.944 0.101 4 170,199,179 CBR4 5′-upstream 31,182 rs294782 5.48E−04 −0.214 0.944 0.467 3 22,858,039 LOC100129341 5′-upstream 62,588 rs2651460 5.48E−04 0.215 0.944 0.319 8 97,706,848 SDC2 3′-downstream 13,635 rs7931660 5.49E−04 0.215 0.944 0.116 11 3,356,910 ZNF195 5′-UTR 0 rs9577858 5.51E−04 0.213 0.944 0.359 13 112,549,621 ATP11A intron 0 rs6930152 5.52E−04 0.214 0.944 0.082 6 15,830,078 DTNBP1 5′-upstream 58,828 rs4252718 5.53E−04 0.213 0.944 0.482 1 202,778,818 MDM4 intron 0 rs11081718 5.55E−04 0.213 0.944 0.404 18 27,670,175 KIAA1012 intron 0 rs10954975 5.56E−04 0.213 0.944 0.217 8 35,019,032 LOC100133273 3′-downstream 167,261 rs6887101 5.59E−04 0.213 0.944 0.335 5 122,137,106 SNX2 5′-upstream 1,543 rs1542188 5.60E−04 0.213 0.944 0.128 11 3,081,011 OSBPL5 intron 0 rs9418078 5.60E−04 0.213 0.944 0.168 10 34,077,361 PARD3 3′-downstream 362,742 rs2131858 5.62E−04 0.213 0.944 0.350 8 104,397,766 FZD6 intron 0 rs2276433 5.63E−04 0.213 0.944 0.480 11 20,630,443 SLC6A5 synonymous 0 rs1935704 5.63E−04 0.213 0.944 0.184 6 112,828,477 LOC643859 5′-upstream 33,138 rs12039454 5.64E−04 0.213 0.944 0.484 1 202,809,203 MDM4 3′-downstream 22,854 rs2369244 5.64E−04 0.213 0.944 0.484 1 202,781,922 MDM4 intron 0 rs17758104 5.65E−04 0.213 0.944 0.052 12 106,551,651 BTBD11 intron 0 rs10902900 5.67E−04 0.213 0.944 0.199 10 124,954,909 LOC100131719 3′-downstream 14,586 rs4702401 5.68E−04 −0.216 0.944 0.319 5 6,961,507 POLS 3′-downstream 151,346 rs9423652 5.69E−04 0.213 0.944 0.078 10 5,590,140 CALML3 3′-downstream 31,915 rs12143625 5.70E−04 −0.213 0.944 0.347 1 213,458,463 KCNK2 intron 0 rs1471173 5.70E−04 0.213 0.944 0.134 4 170,199,727 CBR4 5′-upstream 31,730 rs4845804 5.73E−04 −0.213 0.944 0.353 1 5,568,030 NPHP4 3′-downstream 277,427 rs9905727 5.73E−04 0.216 0.944 0.194 17 75,887,409 KIAA1618 intron 0 rs1108734 5.73E−04 0.213 0.944 0.112 1 43,050,829 CCDC23 intron 0 rs11210721 5.73E−04 0.213 0.944 0.112 1 43,044,833 CCDC23 3′-downstream 487 rs10039039 5.76E−04 −0.216 0.944 0.091 5 169,847,542 KCNIP1 intron 0 rs13185531 5.77E−04 0.212 0.944 0.137 5 40,179,748 LOC285634 5′-upstream 386,301 rs11785367 5.77E−04 0.212 0.944 0.083 8 51,974,064 LOC100128686 3′-downstream 38,889 rs2290854 5.77E−04 0.212 0.944 0.478 1 202,782,648 MDM4 intron 0 rs4951389 5.77E−04 0.212 0.944 0.478 1 202,742,457 TRNAK-UUU 3′-downstream 324 rs2812599 5.78E−04 0.212 0.944 0.191 10 34,080,299 PARD3 3′-downstream 359,804 rs1361697 5.78E−04 0.212 0.944 0.134 6 22,676,513 HDGFL1 5′-upstream 1,144 rs6942987 5.78E−04 0.212 0.944 0.101 7 50,996,595 COBL 3′-downstream 54,809 rs7337058 5.78E−04 0.213 0.944 0.360 13 112,550,584 ATP11A intron 0 rs1019287 5.79E−04 0.212 0.944 0.202 7 38,427,071 AMPH intron 0 rs6427140 5.81E−04 0.214 0.944 0.432 1 166,885,640 DPT 3′-downstream 45,690 rs7841539 5.82E−04 −0.212 0.944 0.496 8 141,308,196 NIBP intron 0 rs10516562 5.82E−04 0.212 0.944 0.076 4 111,525,712 LOC100133103 3′-downstream 14,666 rs1240375 5.83E−04 0.214 0.944 0.254 10 88,723,172 KIAA1975 intron 0 rs13061155 5.83E−04 0.212 0.944 0.417 3 60,244,988 FHIT intron 0 rs5003114 5.83E−04 −0.213 0.944 0.198 1 166,727,502 LOC730016 5′-upstream 40,429 rs6530113 5.84E−04 −0.213 0.944 0.185 23 7,705,276 VCX 5′-upstream 65,027 rs7713342 5.86E−04 0.213 0.944 0.133 5 40,144,931 LOC285634 5′-upstream 351,484 rs12895027 5.89E−04 0.213 0.944 0.055 14 51,812,394 PTGDR 3′-UTR 0 rs13239901 5.90E−04 0.213 0.944 0.232 7 108,935,937 LOC100128056 5′-upstream 330,481 rs2078395 5.90E−04 0.213 0.944 0.443 4 181,140,358 hCG_2025798 3′-downstream 1,081,878 rs1237375 5.91E−04 −0.217 0.944 0.500 4 70,846,395 CSN1S1 intron 0 rs30045 5.92E−04 0.212 0.944 0.127 5 122,299,518 SNX24 intron 0 rs10245778 5.97E−04 0.212 0.944 0.097 7 142,460,269 OR6V1 missense 0 rs12668105 5.97E−04 0.212 0.944 0.097 7 142,470,988 OR6W1P Unknown — rs11126440 5.98E−04 0.212 0.944 0.486 2 74,782,998 SEMA4F 3′-downstream 20,305 rs363620 5.98E−04 0.212 0.944 0.486 2 74,781,858 SEMA4F 3′-downstream 19,165 rs2392518 5.98E−04 0.214 0.944 0.366 7 37,800,734 GPR141 3′-downstream 53,296 rs12541355 5.99E−04 −0.213 0.944 0.176 8 8,486,098 CLDN23 5′-upstream 110,978 rs7707152 6.00E−04 −0.212 0.944 0.191 5 112,004,964 APC 5′-upstream 96,519 rs11831152 6.01E−04 0.212 0.944 0.081 12 130,300,928 LOC116437 3′-downstream 42,704 rs4878782 6.03E−04 0.213 0.944 0.203 9 38,293,243 ALDH1B1 5′-upstream 89,459 rs2836999 6.03E−04 0.212 0.944 0.316 21 39,683,415 WRB intron 0 rs2817738 6.04E−04 0.212 0.944 0.426 6 24,899,079 GMNN 3′-downstream 4,822 rs378437 6.05E−04 0.212 0.944 0.103 1 55,782,058 LOC645538 3′-downstream 175,023 rs6869344 6.07E−04 0.213 0.944 0.053 5 59,642,077 LOC653198 intron 0 rs1496412 6.07E−04 −0.212 0.944 0.317 5 6,986,887 POLS 3′-downstream 176,726 rs4673021 6.08E−04 0.212 0.944 0.209 2 223,013,767 SGPP2 intron 0 rs4908425 6.09E−04 0.212 0.944 0.129 1 6,823,605 CAMTA1 intron 0 rs12154354 6.09E−04 −0.212 0.944 0.149 7 64,540,471 ZNF92 3′-downstream 37,038 rs4501594 6.10E−04 0.212 0.944 0.238 8 88,681,411 LOC642461 Unknown — rs2972588 6.11E−04 0.212 0.944 0.105 19 8,814,922 MBD3L1 missense 0 rs7149245 6.12E−04 0.212 0.944 0.260 14 53,863,105 CDKN3 5′-upstream 70,371 rs17091512 6.13E−04 0.211 0.944 0.060 14 56,013,748 C14orf101 5′-upstream 102,516 rs2101018 6.14E−04 0.211 0.944 0.199 4 136,714,417 LOC100132574 5′-upstream 6,655 rs1327634 6.14E−04 0.211 0.944 0.489 13 95,659,303 HS6ST3 intron 0 rs2213325 6.15E−04 0.212 0.944 0.147 22 32,804,560 LARGE 5′-upstream 158,150 rs6743895 6.15E−04 0.211 0.944 0.090 2 56,106,433 MIRN216B 5′-upstream 24,999 rs555864 6.18E−04 0.211 0.944 0.052 5 178,745,813 ADAMTS2 5′-upstream 40,878 rs2461935 6.19E−04 0.211 0.944 0.426 10 20,447,496 PLXDC2 intron 0 rs2021306 6.19E−04 0.212 0.944 0.165 9 14,355,307 NFIB 5′-upstream 51,362 rs4786182 6.19E−04 −0.212 0.944 0.313 16 7,535,702 A2BP1 intron 0 rs1341936 6.20E−04 −0.212 0.944 0.253 23 93,118,684 LOC100127890 5′-upstream 156,422 rs11949163 6.20E−04 0.212 0.944 0.143 5 40,210,503 LOC285634 5′-upstream 417,056 rs2837007 6.21E−04 0.211 0.944 0.347 21 39,694,354 LCA5L 3′-downstream 5,286 rs2814609 6.22E−04 0.211 0.944 0.108 1 189,872,382 RGS18 5′-upstream 521,833 rs4918047 6.24E−04 0.211 0.944 0.081 10 105,512,330 SH3PXD2A intron 0 rs2839034 6.25E−04 −0.212 0.944 0.411 21 46,121,013 PCBP3 intron 0 rs7895784 6.25E−04 0.211 0.944 0.471 10 18,912,878 NSUN6 intron 0 rs12624214 6.25E−04 0.211 0.944 0.128 2 124,348,173 LOC100131284 3′-downstream 111,052 rs4951409 6.26E−04 0.211 0.944 0.475 1 202,827,613 LRRN2 3′-downstream 25,311 rs7532236 6.26E−04 0.211 0.944 0.475 1 202,828,240 LRRN2 3′-downstream 24,684 rs10489218 6.27E−04 0.212 0.944 0.458 1 166,883,302 DPT 3′-downstream 48,028 rs1501254 6.27E−04 −0.212 0.944 0.445 17 47,435,164 CA10 intron 0 rs11240764 6.28E−04 0.211 0.944 0.475 1 202,835,999 LRRN2 3′-downstream 16,925 rs10506537 6.30E−04 0.211 0.944 0.150 12 63,317,157 RASSF3 intron 0 rs6983491 6.30E−04 0.211 0.944 0.052 8 74,338,532 LOC100130301 intron 0 rs2296948 6.31E−04 0.211 0.944 0.415 9 116,473,506 LOC100129633 intron 0 rs5752014 6.31E−04 −0.211 0.944 0.375 22 23,617,889 SGSM1 intron 0 rs9695517 6.31E−04 0.211 0.944 0.430 9 116,479,676 LOC100129633 intron 0 rs6853611 6.31E−04 0.211 0.944 0.480 4 70,951,620 HTN1 intron 0 rs2812669 6.33E−04 0.211 0.944 0.168 10 34,076,104 PARD3 3′-downstream 363,999 rs6882373 6.37E−04 0.211 0.944 0.081 5 14,531,601 TRIO intron 0 rs352517 6.37E−04 0.211 0.944 0.267 6 69,250,301 LOC728052 3′-downstream 150,609 rs7117175 6.37E−04 0.211 0.944 0.130 11 3,078,716 OSBPL5 intron 0 rs7680113 6.38E−04 0.211 0.944 0.284 4 188,911,848 LOC644325 5′-upstream 5,495 rs7994097 6.40E−04 0.211 0.944 0.177 13 19,831,064 CRYL1 3′-downstream 44,742 rs459552 6.40E−04 0.211 0.944 0.114 5 112,204,655 APC missense 0 rs478859 6.41E−04 −0.211 0.944 0.363 1 100,568,708 LOC646970 3′-downstream 564 rs587058 6.41E−04 −0.211 0.944 0.363 1 100,568,472 LOC646970 3′-downstream 800 rs11242152 6.41E−04 0.211 0.944 0.344 5 132,770,349 FSTL4 intron 0 rs6576425 6.41E−04 −0.212 0.944 0.438 15 23,254,330 UBE3A 5′-upstream 19,109 rs2291787 6.42E−04 0.213 0.944 0.496 8 86,428,972 CA1 intron 0 rs2073925 6.43E−04 −0.211 0.944 0.263 9 135,027,080 GBGT1 intron 0 rs246285 6.44E−04 0.216 0.944 0.179 5 122,272,867 SNX24 intron 0 rs1775416 6.44E−04 −0.211 0.944 0.424 1 5,568,851 NPHP4 3′-downstream 276,606 rs7280598 6.44E−04 −0.211 0.944 0.285 21 36,295,016 RPL23AP3 3′-downstream 15,077 rs183108 6.44E−04 0.211 0.944 0.082 6 54,418,757 CLNS1B 3′-downstream 38,420 rs1369802 6.44E−04 0.211 0.944 0.158 4 28,856,822 LOC100131674 3′-downstream 57,831 rs869546 6.47E−04 −0.211 0.944 0.110 3 190,999,791 TP63 intron 0 rs10225135 6.48E−04 0.211 0.944 0.264 7 107,965,198 PNPLA8 5′-upstream 11,324 rs7144713 6.48E−04 −0.212 0.944 0.130 14 56,969,647 NAT12 3′-downstream 22,011 rs11040173 6.48E−04 0.214 0.944 0.227 11 5,965,954 OR52L1 5′-upstream 1,218 rs16851729 6.48E−04 −0.211 0.944 0.094 3 130,061,684 LOC653712 3′-downstream 1,357 rs7044279 6.49E−04 0.212 0.944 0.084 9 111,009,022 EPB41L4B intron 0 rs9297854 6.49E−04 −0.211 0.944 0.426 8 133,724,160 LRRC6 intron 0 rs6716756 6.49E−04 0.211 0.944 0.125 2 102,667,630 SLC9A2 intron 0 rs34823274 6.51E−04 −0.211 0.944 0.118 4 14,805,437 LOC100129903 intron 0 rs7009336 6.51E−04 0.210 0.944 0.478 8 91,453,737 TMEM64 3′-downstream 251,041 rs3828558 6.51E−04 0.210 0.944 0.251 4 24,143,785 DHX15 intron 0 rs11668269 6.52E−04 0.212 0.944 0.434 19 22,305,800 LOC100130518 3′-downstream 13,982 rs1269683 6.53E−04 0.210 0.944 0.072 7 107,710,367 NRCAM intron 0 rs6672295 6.53E−04 0.211 0.944 0.162 1 50,487,276 ELAVL4 3′-downstream 47,628 rs17171172 6.53E−04 0.210 0.944 0.222 7 37,839,175 TXNDC3 5′-upstream 15,549 rs4776290 6.55E−04 0.211 0.944 0.433 15 64,279,015 MEGF11 intron 0 rs6594018 6.56E−04 0.210 0.944 0.478 1 202,834,775 LRRN2 3′-downstream 18,149 rs1460040 6.56E−04 0.210 0.944 0.116 5 122,133,131 SNX2 5′-upstream 5,518 rs1383415 6.56E−04 −0.210 0.944 0.368 2 180,565,958 KIAA1604 intron 0 rs12208513 6.58E−04 0.210 0.944 0.063 6 154,942,722 LOC646269 3′-downstream 2,801 rs7049523 6.58E−04 0.211 0.944 0.092 23 110,697,230 LOC643873 3′-downstream 51,040 rs7162388 6.59E−04 0.210 0.944 0.090 15 59,117,034 RORA intron 0 rs2984610 6.60E−04 0.212 0.944 0.060 1 167,195,740 LOC391132 3′-downstream 20,884 rs6785072 6.61E−04 −0.210 0.944 0.464 3 198,552,075 DLG1 5′-upstream 42,231 rs994377 6.62E−04 0.210 0.944 0.278 6 67,448,299 NUFIP1P 5′-upstream 586,767 rs2406623 6.63E−04 0.211 0.944 0.116 4 153,403,766 FBXW7 3′-downstream 58,094 rs9833267 6.63E−04 0.211 0.944 0.353 3 104,553,964 LOC644681 3′-downstream 186,204 rs4739296 6.64E−04 0.210 0.944 0.215 8 35,073,349 LOC100133273 3′-downstream 221,578 rs12509760 6.64E−04 0.210 0.944 0.357 4 24,163,182 DHX15 intron 0 rs6103592 6.67E−04 −0.210 0.944 0.101 20 42,124,801 TOX2 intron 0 rs3902916 6.68E−04 0.211 0.944 0.284 4 188,907,021 LOC644325 5′-upstream 668 rs175154 6.68E−04 0.210 0.944 0.183 22 15,706,668 ZNF402P 3′-downstream 11,358 rs2387653 6.69E−04 0.212 0.944 0.130 10 1,397,826 ADARB2 intron 0 rs6977083 6.69E−04 0.210 0.944 0.412 7 70,893,394 CALN1 intron 0 rs17724918 6.70E−04 −0.210 0.944 0.129 14 57,193,866 LOC401777 3′-downstream 26,706 rs7626560 6.72E−04 0.210 0.944 0.101 3 12,450,088 PPARG intron 0 rs2251741 6.74E−04 0.210 0.944 0.449 8 95,227,558 CDH17 synonymous 0 rs12109819 6.76E−04 −0.210 0.944 0.460 5 32,103,783 PDZD2 intron 0 rs11640308 6.77E−04 0.210 0.944 0.129 16 55,497,470 SLC12A3 intron 0 rs2111211 6.78E−04 0.210 0.944 0.314 12 107,563,998 CORO1C 3′-UTR 0 rs17632029 6.81E−04 0.212 0.944 0.072 10 14,008,131 FRMD4A intron 0 rs13263539 6.81E−04 0.210 0.944 0.292 8 102,613,455 GRHL2 intron 0 rs10906218 6.82E−04 0.211 0.944 0.103 10 12,837,291 CAMK1D intron 0 rs6421114 6.82E−04 0.212 0.944 0.172 23 113,479,287 LOC100131029 5′-upstream 50,581 rs9495256 6.82E−04 0.210 0.944 0.165 6 139,161,606 CCDC28A 3′-downstream 5,457 rs9954037 6.82E−04 −0.213 0.944 0.131 18 57,564,436 RNF152 3′-downstream 68,848 rs3744950 6.83E−04 −0.210 0.944 0.408 18 59,073,256 BCL2 intron 0 rs12656478 6.83E−04 0.210 0.944 0.078 5 123,769,231 ZNF608 3′-downstream 231,278 rs10760699 6.84E−04 0.210 0.944 0.464 9 101,707,078 LOC441461 intron 0 rs1962051 6.84E−04 0.210 0.944 0.464 9 101,709,698 STX17 intron 0 rs4965473 6.84E−04 0.210 0.944 0.067 15 97,679,431 LRRC28 intron 0 rs4867950 6.85E−04 −0.210 0.944 0.345 5 169,593,380 LOC133874 intron 0 rs2186184 6.85E−04 −0.210 0.944 0.409 1 90,070,893 LRRC8D intron 0 rs9516644 6.86E−04 0.210 0.944 0.489 13 95,680,681 HS6ST3 intron 0 rs2291239 6.88E−04 0.210 0.944 0.262 18 27,698,809 KIAA1012 intron 0 rs11611384 6.88E−04 0.210 0.944 0.171 12 113,454,146 LOC652191 5′-upstream 17,697 rs6679717 6.89E−04 0.212 0.944 0.480 1 202,827,300 LRRN2 3′-downstream 25,624 rs1092656 6.92E−04 −0.213 0.944 0.319 6 113,679,429 LOC643884 3′-downstream 27,462 rs10260248 6.95E−04 0.209 0.944 0.083 7 142,629,853 TAS2R40 missense 0 rs2581790 6.96E−04 0.209 0.944 0.359 3 53,076,820 LOC553148 5′-upstream 2,579 rs2258497 6.96E−04 0.209 0.944 0.181 1 165,674,697 CD247 intron 0 rs2744603 6.96E−04 0.209 0.944 0.267 6 24,645,844 KIAA0319 3′-downstream 6,467 rs17741796 6.96E−04 0.210 0.944 0.256 18 27,663,317 KIAA1012 3′-UTR 0 rs7199337 6.97E−04 0.211 0.944 0.318 16 77,356,261 WWOX intron 0 rs10447342 6.97E−04 0.209 0.944 0.049 6 92,809,429 LOC100129847 5′-upstream 226,577 rs2900886 6.98E−04 0.209 0.944 0.067 1 167,182,814 LOC391132 3′-downstream 7,958 rs2984605 6.98E−04 0.209 0.944 0.067 1 167,194,079 LOC391132 3′-downstream 19,223 rs2984608 6.98E−04 0.209 0.944 0.067 1 167,195,678 LOC391132 3′-downstream 20,822 rs2984609 6.98E−04 0.209 0.944 0.067 1 167,195,711 LOC391132 3′-downstream 20,855 rs2984612 6.98E−04 0.209 0.944 0.067 1 167,199,277 LOC391132 3′-downstream 24,421 rs3735478 6.99E−04 −0.209 0.944 0.166 7 44,766,701 ZMIZ2 missense 0 rs552760 6.99E−04 0.210 0.944 0.174 1 205,099,462 IL20 5′-upstream 6,315 rs11823077 6.99E−04 −0.210 0.944 0.096 11 4,505,525 OR52M2P 5′-upstream 11,695 rs6986126 7.01E−04 0.210 0.944 0.105 8 14,335,688 SGCZ intron 0 rs7961254 7.01E−04 0.209 0.944 0.058 12 95,913,090 NEDD1 3′-downstream 42,918 rs4505038 7.02E−04 0.211 0.944 0.327 11 45,891,273 PEX16 intron 0 rs7704817 7.04E−04 −0.210 0.944 0.223 5 154,968,300 LOC100131033 3′-downstream 114,946 rs9896168 7.04E−04 −0.209 0.944 0.431 17 47,453,436 CA10 intron 0 rs12767108 7.04E−04 0.209 0.944 0.123 10 72,784,238 SLC29A3 intron 0 rs12428610 7.04E−04 0.210 0.944 0.491 13 95,663,351 HS6ST3 intron 0 rs1250220 7.04E−04 −0.210 0.944 0.368 2 216,028,295 FN1 5′-upstream 19,259 rs4954723 7.05E−04 −0.209 0.944 0.273 2 139,285,272 NXPH2 5′-upstream 30,991 rs1938969 7.05E−04 0.210 0.944 0.254 11 105,143,204 GRIA4 intron 0 rs5761495 7.06E−04 0.213 0.944 0.360 22 25,089,278 SEZ6L intron 0 rs5769445 7.06E−04 0.210 0.944 0.191 22 47,964,086 LOC643653 3′-downstream 31,701 rs2836248 7.06E−04 −0.210 0.944 0.465 21 38,551,067 LOC441964 intron 0 rs7406705 7.07E−04 0.210 0.944 0.306 17 77,222,329 TSPAN10 intron 0 rs10494791 7.09E−04 0.214 0.944 0.066 1 197,626,453 LOC647202 3′-downstream 2,227 rs7813136 7.09E−04 −0.210 0.944 0.218 8 136,444,840 LOC286094 3′-downstream 66,860 rs17599976 7.09E−04 0.209 0.944 0.112 17 72,352,169 MGAT5B 5′-upstream 24,224 rs12247156 7.11E−04 −0.209 0.944 0.155 10 34,675,535 PARD3 intron 0 rs2673942 7.12E−04 −0.209 0.944 0.149 1 233,060,091 PP2672 5′-upstream 97,869 rs16973748 7.12E−04 0.211 0.944 0.172 16 85,387,316 LOC729979 3′-downstream 58,383 rs17416875 7.14E−04 0.209 0.944 0.060 7 39,662,643 RALA intron 0 rs3779203 7.14E−04 0.209 0.944 0.060 7 39,703,321 RALA intron 0 rs8090593 7.14E−04 0.209 0.944 0.356 18 69,667,938 FBXO15 3′-downstream 223,647 rs11754612 7.14E−04 0.209 0.944 0.052 6 35,584,540 TULP1 intron 0 rs2032319 7.16E−04 −0.209 0.944 0.283 21 36,295,592 RPL23AP3 3′-downstream 14,501 rs560642 7.17E−04 0.209 0.944 0.319 12 24,338,715 SOX5 intron 0 rs2304733 7.18E−04 0.209 0.944 0.489 11 12,860,019 TEAD1 synonymous 0 rs1975174 7.18E−04 0.210 0.944 0.398 19 22,307,091 LOC100130518 3′-downstream 15,273 rs2834652 7.20E−04 0.209 0.944 0.199 21 35,151,507 RUNX1 intron 0 rs6986563 7.21E−04 −0.209 0.944 0.199 8 101,677,135 SNX31 intron 0 rs12495344 7.22E−04 0.209 0.944 0.177 3 192,516,457 CCDC50 5′-upstream 13,111 rs17386017 7.22E−04 0.209 0.944 0.132 1 43,069,669 ERMAP intron 0 rs7198511 7.22E−04 0.209 0.944 0.287 16 77,355,868 WWOX intron 0 rs4075410 7.22E−04 0.209 0.944 0.446 8 144,300,478 LY6H 3′-downstream 10,228 rs6015519 7.23E−04 −0.209 0.944 0.264 20 57,532,222 LOC645605 5′-upstream 28,985 rs2514788 7.23E−04 0.209 0.944 0.453 8 95,212,920 CDH17 intron 0 rs655205 7.25E−04 0.209 0.944 0.478 1 189,766,343 RGS18 5′-upstream 627,872 rs10483200 7.25E−04 −0.209 0.944 0.097 22 38,565,782 ENTHD1 intron 0 rs1469569 7.28E−04 −0.209 0.944 0.421 3 88,158,887 CGGBP1 3′-downstream 24,903 rs7516412 7.28E−04 −0.209 0.944 0.305 1 200,242,824 ELF3 5′-upstream 872 rs788460 7.29E−04 0.210 0.944 0.209 12 28,041,539 PTHLH 5′-upstream 25,356 rs6100472 7.29E−04 0.209 0.944 0.359 20 57,523,252 LOC645605 5′-upstream 20,015 rs17025231 7.31E−04 −0.209 0.944 0.166 2 101,043,095 TBC1D8 intron 0 rs9893317 7.32E−04 0.209 0.944 0.299 17 47,547,164 CA10 intron 0 rs6427139 7.32E−04 0.210 0.944 0.442 1 166,879,549 DPT 3′-downstream 51,781 rs1918981 7.34E−04 −0.209 0.944 0.184 23 7,702,055 VCX 5′-upstream 68,248 rs5980147 7.34E−04 −0.209 0.944 0.184 23 7,701,717 VCX 5′-upstream 68,586 rs6863920 7.37E−04 −0.209 0.944 0.304 5 59,898,210 DEPDC1B 3′-downstream 30,286 rs11100879 7.37E−04 0.208 0.944 0.173 4 146,579,862 LOC100132841 5′-upstream 16,745 rs7588830 7.38E−04 0.208 0.944 0.464 2 215,985,917 FN1 intron 0 rs17049639 7.38E−04 0.209 0.944 0.200 3 8,858,603 RAD18 3′-downstream 37,957 rs12223997 7.38E−04 0.208 0.944 0.374 11 7,570,138 PPFIBP2 intron 0 rs6862076 7.39E−04 −0.209 0.944 0.435 5 32,105,667 PDZD2 intron 0 rs5949475 7.43E−04 −0.210 0.944 0.070 23 93,699,769 LOC780816 3′-downstream 78,290 rs12517436 7.44E−04 0.208 0.944 0.052 5 3,867,700 IRX1 3′-downstream 213,183 rs2635462 7.45E−04 −0.208 0.944 0.276 6 152,558,808 SYNE1 intron 0 rs1297214 7.46E−04 0.209 0.944 0.132 21 15,253,724 NRIP1 3′-downstream 1,703 rs12819780 7.47E−04 0.208 0.944 0.265 12 29,659,102 TMTC1 intron 0 rs11796119 7.47E−04 −0.208 0.944 0.217 23 9,996,515 WWC3 intron 0 rs266585 7.47E−04 −0.208 0.944 0.134 5 64,364,371 SDCCAG10 3′-downstream 14,025 rs11965065 7.48E−04 0.209 0.944 0.051 6 15,838,249 DTNBP1 5′-upstream 66,999 rs12789020 7.48E−04 0.208 0.944 0.103 11 21,902,827 TMEM16E 5′-upstream 268,471 rs1861594 7.48E−04 −0.208 0.944 0.397 12 15,552,237 PTPRO intron 0 rs16893606 7.49E−04 0.208 0.944 0.173 4 16,146,608 LDB2 intron 0 rs4330653 7.49E−04 0.208 0.944 0.079 8 10,483,001 RP1L1 3′-downstream 18,268 rs1342782 7.50E−04 0.208 0.944 0.426 1 90,908,805 BARHL2 3′-downstream 41,362 rs12814885 7.52E−04 0.209 0.944 0.089 12 7,396,641 CD163L1 3′-downstream 2,182 rs1520459 7.52E−04 0.213 0.944 0.425 15 44,730,699 SQRDL 3′-downstream 959,928 rs6848945 7.53E−04 0.208 0.944 0.103 4 30,258,917 PCDH7 5′-upstream 72,218 rs2047324 7.54E−04 −0.208 0.944 0.327 5 6,958,147 POLS 3′-downstream 147,986 rs517480 7.54E−04 −0.208 0.944 0.285 11 113,588,679 ZBTB16 intron 0 rs17056169 7.57E−04 0.208 0.944 0.072 9 72,806,374 TRPM3 intron 0 rs926571 7.57E−04 −0.209 0.944 0.301 6 22,781,432 LOC389370 intron 0 rs8047997 7.58E−04 −0.208 0.944 0.484 16 1,253,302 TPSD1 3′-downstream 4,807 rs4758198 7.58E−04 0.209 0.944 0.365 11 7,556,800 PPFIBP2 intron 0 rs41535144 7.60E−04 0.208 0.944 0.129 14 53,626,570 LOC645560 5′-upstream 98,107 rs4909741 7.60E−04 0.208 0.944 0.197 8 139,253,233 FAM135B intron 0 rs7750712 7.61E−04 0.208 0.944 0.134 6 22,673,295 HDGFL1 5′-upstream 4,362 rs17066591 7.61E−04 −0.208 0.944 0.354 5 165,645,102 LOC441114 5′-upstream 96,686 rs9912487 7.62E−04 0.213 0.944 0.182 17 52,863,276 MSI2 intron 0 rs30038 7.63E−04 0.209 0.944 0.126 5 122,305,261 SNX24 intron 0 rs7221855 7.64E−04 0.208 0.944 0.310 17 72,176,449 MXRA7 3′-downstream 6,955 rs1563828 7.65E−04 0.208 0.944 0.484 1 202,783,200 MDM4 intron 0 rs6676563 7.67E−04 0.208 0.944 0.440 1 55,425,571 USP24 intron 0 rs7536204 7.67E−04 0.208 0.944 0.440 1 55,439,065 USP24 intron 0 rs6992422 7.67E−04 0.208 0.944 0.365 8 5,054,945 LOC648237 5′-upstream 81,705 rs3747961 7.68E−04 0.209 0.944 0.092 1 94,231,009 ABCA4 3′-UTR 0 rs1462839 7.70E−04 0.208 0.944 0.128 10 67,626,355 CTNNA3 intron 0 rs16907660 7.70E−04 0.208 0.944 0.092 11 21,172,953 NELL1 intron 0 rs9828276 7.70E−04 0.208 0.944 0.361 3 144,723,903 SLC9A9 intron 0 rs7607788 7.71E−04 0.208 0.944 0.209 2 236,020,154 CENTG2 5′-upstream 47,321 rs10503974 7.71E−04 0.208 0.944 0.218 8 35,018,934 LOC100133273 3′-downstream 167,163 rs17030975 7.71E−04 0.208 0.944 0.329 3 53,743,245 CACNA1D intron 0 rs1795846 7.74E−04 0.208 0.944 0.444 12 53,175,347 LOC100130272 intron 0 rs1992044 7.75E−04 0.208 0.944 0.141 8 59,003,462 FAM110B 5′-upstream 66,205 rs1992045 7.75E−04 0.208 0.944 0.141 8 59,003,478 FAM110B 5′-upstream 66,189 rs9650192 7.75E−04 0.208 0.944 0.141 8 59,004,444 FAM110B 5′-upstream 65,223 rs8007000 7.75E−04 0.208 0.944 0.130 14 53,616,199 LOC645560 5′-upstream 87,736 rs6095882 7.75E−04 0.208 0.944 0.060 20 48,409,292 TRNAL-AAG 5′-upstream 23,462 rs10094861 7.76E−04 0.208 0.944 0.192 8 1,254,336 C8orf68 3′-downstream 179,152 rs12956309 7.77E−04 0.208 0.944 0.227 18 5,752,597 LOC645355 intron 0 rs10098626 7.78E−04 0.208 0.944 0.442 8 35,008,456 LOC100133273 3′-downstream 156,685 rs10900596 7.79E−04 0.208 0.944 0.477 1 202,789,080 MDM4 3′-downstream 2,731 rs595578 7.79E−04 −0.208 0.944 0.098 18 75,554,323 CTDP1 intron 0 rs12776025 7.80E−04 0.209 0.944 0.168 10 27,279,372 LOC100131912 5′-upstream 6,019 rs10519649 7.80E−04 0.208 0.944 0.419 4 143,674,003 INPP4B intron 0 rs11765212 7.80E−04 0.207 0.944 0.076 7 70,053,725 AUTS2 3′-downstream 157,935 rs4758930 7.80E−04 −0.207 0.944 0.085 12 132,088,232 ZNF26 intron 0 rs12450865 7.80E−04 −0.207 0.944 0.403 17 47,525,332 CA10 intron 0 rs661322 7.81E−04 0.209 0.944 0.482 1 189,778,133 RGS18 5′-upstream 616,082 rs7488840 7.82E−04 0.208 0.944 0.102 12 7,394,106 CD163L1 3′-downstream 4,717 rs10900799 7.84E−04 −0.207 0.944 0.327 5 130,567,627 LYRM7 3′-UTR 0 rs10870249 7.84E−04 0.207 0.944 0.144 10 133,767,689 JAKMIP3 5′-upstream 614 rs2040622 7.86E−04 −0.207 0.944 0.161 17 65,096,191 MAP2K6 3′-downstream 46,126 rs7161490 7.86E−04 0.207 0.944 0.105 14 95,083,965 GLRX5 3′-downstream 3,157 rs2279700 7.87E−04 0.207 0.944 0.444 8 86,398,102 CA13 3′-downstream 14,548 rs6530110 7.90E−04 −0.208 0.944 0.184 23 7,704,976 VCX 5′-upstream 65,327 rs11608789 7.92E−04 0.207 0.944 0.085 12 106,998,822 LOC100129448 intron 0 rs4252685 7.92E−04 0.208 0.944 0.482 1 202,763,479 MDM4 intron 0 rs17147844 7.92E−04 0.207 0.944 0.074 4 70,813,132 CSN1S1 5′-upstream 18,256 rs4951393 7.92E−04 0.210 0.944 0.487 1 202,756,180 MDM4 intron 0 rs4984643 7.93E−04 0.209 0.944 0.403 16 1,279,756 LOC650474 Unknown — rs2185416 7.93E−04 0.210 0.944 0.178 10 72,796,733 SLC29A3 3′-downstream 3,580 rs9447086 7.93E−04 −0.208 0.944 0.135 6 74,741,057 CD109 3′-downstream 146,296 rs4353793 7.93E−04 0.208 0.944 0.056 3 1,756,437 LOC391504 5′-upstream 143,508 rs7334785 7.94E−04 0.207 0.944 0.215 13 39,669,985 FOXO1 3′-downstream 357,816 rs250851 7.94E−04 0.208 0.944 0.355 5 132,783,374 FSTL4 intron 0 rs619491 7.97E−04 −0.209 0.944 0.305 5 40,920,837 C7 5′-upstream 24,519 rs11762157 7.98E−04 0.207 0.944 0.394 7 17,066,715 LOC100131425 3′-downstream 171,675 rs7526462 7.98E−04 0.208 0.944 0.065 1 167,176,576 LOC391132 3′-downstream 1,720 rs1420741 7.98E−04 0.207 0.944 0.063 12 106,545,252 BTBD11 intron 0 rs10927390 7.98E−04 0.208 0.944 0.315 1 243,320,667 EFCAB2 3′-downstream 2,906 rs6785333 8.00E−04 −0.209 0.944 0.414 3 88,168,323 CGGBP1 3′-downstream 15,467 rs1439566 8.01E−04 0.208 0.944 0.192 5 124,577,237 LOC644659 Unknown — rs2718019 8.05E−04 0.207 0.944 0.177 7 36,047,961 LOC100129326 Unknown — rs11027159 8.05E−04 −0.207 0.944 0.384 11 23,318,586 LOC100131557 3′-downstream 29,676 rs11151507 8.05E−04 0.207 0.944 0.162 18 65,277,685 DOK6 intron 0 rs10251707 8.06E−04 0.207 0.944 0.222 7 40,664,407 C7orf10 intron 0 rs1339408 8.06E−04 −0.207 0.944 0.087 1 213,432,681 KCNK2 intron 0 rs6780419 8.07E−04 0.208 0.944 0.474 3 191,539,016 CLDN1 5′-upstream 16,107 rs4304370 8.07E−04 −0.207 0.944 0.301 9 1,725,187 SMARCA2 5′-upstream 280,155 rs6488556 8.07E−04 0.207 0.944 0.256 12 12,818,994 MIRN613 3′-downstream 10,050 rs7390284 8.07E−04 0.207 0.944 0.359 9 18,379,998 ADAMTSL1 5′-upstream 84,106 rs11052699 8.07E−04 0.207 0.944 0.092 12 7,395,698 CD163L1 3′-downstream 3,125 rs6517434 8.07E−04 0.207 0.944 0.090 21 38,109,926 KCNJ6 intron 0 rs41434745 8.08E−04 −0.207 0.944 0.397 1 205,098,415 IL20 5′-upstream 7,362 rs26147 8.08E−04 0.211 0.944 0.396 5 11,535,412 CTNND2 intron 0 rs2132482 8.08E−04 0.207 0.944 0.065 11 43,231,114 LOC399881 3′-downstream 8,516 rs636811 8.09E−04 0.207 0.944 0.090 1 231,815,644 KCNK1 5′-upstream 729 rs7677823 8.10E−04 −0.207 0.944 0.458 4 160,416,083 RAPGEF2 intron 0 rs9910052 8.10E−04 0.207 0.944 0.323 17 72,180,396 MXRA7 3′-downstream 3,008 rs17423995 8.11E−04 0.207 0.944 0.051 4 37,416,631 RELL1 5′-upstream 52,237 rs2969208 8.12E−04 −0.207 0.944 0.116 17 11,279,499 FLJ45455 intron 0 rs9525158 8.12E−04 0.207 0.944 0.489 13 95,675,242 HS6ST3 intron 0 rs332433 8.13E−04 −0.207 0.944 0.235 11 36,677,824 C11orf74 3′-downstream 40,431 rs332434 8.13E−04 −0.207 0.944 0.235 11 36,677,733 C11orf74 3′-downstream 40,340 rs11055065 8.13E−04 0.210 0.944 0.224 12 12,825,721 APOLD1 5′-upstream 4,161 rs10900594 8.14E−04 0.207 0.944 0.478 1 202,736,752 TRNAK-UUU 5′-upstream 5,526 rs1265181 8.16E−04 0.207 0.944 0.123 6 31,263,764 HCG27 5′-upstream 9,814 rs776858 8.16E−04 0.207 0.944 0.495 4 70,860,054 CSN2 intron 0 rs6713893 8.18E−04 0.207 0.944 0.119 2 2,649,185 MYT1L 5′-upstream 335,133 rs13028443 8.19E−04 0.207 0.944 0.460 2 63,457,221 LOC51057 intron 0 rs993794 8.19E−04 −0.207 0.944 0.159 10 108,081,693 LOC100132397 5′-upstream 200,523 rs1884452 8.21E−04 0.209 0.944 0.048 23 145,413,585 LOC100128690 5′-upstream 22,445 rs11651547 8.21E−04 0.207 0.944 0.119 17 39,376,774 PYY 3′-downstream 8,858 rs1418561 8.22E−04 0.209 0.944 0.182 6 112,809,914 LOC643859 5′-upstream 14,575 rs185009 8.24E−04 0.207 0.944 0.126 5 122,301,666 SNX24 intron 0 rs246287 8.24E−04 0.207 0.944 0.126 5 122,273,325 SNX24 intron 0 rs246317 8.24E−04 0.207 0.944 0.126 5 122,337,759 SNX24 intron 0 rs246322 8.24E−04 0.207 0.944 0.126 5 122,335,168 SNX24 intron 0 rs30029 8.24E−04 0.207 0.944 0.126 5 122,311,069 SNX24 intron 0 rs30039 8.24E−04 0.207 0.944 0.126 5 122,305,078 SNX24 intron 0 rs30049 8.24E−04 0.207 0.944 0.126 5 122,333,996 SNX24 intron 0 rs431878 8.24E−04 0.207 0.944 0.126 5 122,289,690 SNX24 intron 0 rs1927807 8.25E−04 0.207 0.944 0.487 13 95,672,758 HS6ST3 intron 0 rs11248542 8.25E−04 0.207 0.944 0.129 10 125,218,584 GPR26 5′-upstream 197,277 rs1496533 8.25E−04 0.207 0.944 0.496 8 86,420,726 CA1 3′-downstream 6,983 rs701556 8.28E−04 −0.206 0.944 0.238 13 102,406,882 LOC121952 3′-downstream 59,838 rs1391240 8.28E−04 −0.208 0.944 0.498 6 164,885,480 LOC728275 3′-downstream 206,903 rs10985459 8.28E−04 −0.208 0.944 0.166 9 123,743,153 TTLL11 3′-downstream 47,857 rs2850377 8.29E−04 0.206 0.944 0.338 4 103,131,182 BANK1 intron 0 rs2850378 8.29E−04 0.206 0.944 0.338 4 103,134,990 BANK1 intron 0 rs10485526 8.30E−04 −0.206 0.944 0.361 20 15,383,203 MACROD2 intron 0 rs11015427 8.30E−04 0.206 0.944 0.173 10 27,291,815 LOC100131912 5′-upstream 18,462 rs11015433 8.30E−04 0.206 0.944 0.173 10 27,296,142 LOC100131912 5′-upstream 22,789 rs6488592 8.32E−04 0.206 0.944 0.121 12 7,739,894 GDF3 5′-upstream 267 rs9292290 8.33E−04 −0.207 0.944 0.149 5 28,755,133 LOC729862 5′-upstream 206,329 rs7332561 8.34E−04 0.208 0.944 0.201 13 28,860,516 KIAA0774 intron 0 rs4659221 8.35E−04 −0.206 0.944 0.274 1 119,969,876 LOC100130667 intron 0 rs10503973 8.36E−04 0.207 0.944 0.219 8 35,018,804 LOC100133273 3′-downstream 167,033 rs10993511 8.37E−04 0.206 0.944 0.078 9 92,259,202 LOC340515 3′-downstream 5,332 rs12022129 8.37E−04 0.206 0.944 0.394 1 205,069,997 IL19 intron 0 rs2124761 8.39E−04 0.207 0.944 0.053 11 100,441,556 PGR intron 0 rs4964848 8.39E−04 0.207 0.944 0.199 12 128,198,132 TMEM132D intron 0 rs6745008 8.41E−04 −0.206 0.944 0.233 2 230,069,842 DNER intron 0 rs363625 8.41E−04 0.206 0.944 0.489 2 74,784,407 SEMA4F 3′-downstream 21,714 rs17154379 8.42E−04 −0.207 0.944 0.185 8 8,506,621 CLDN23 5′-upstream 90,455 rs3015224 8.43E−04 −0.206 0.944 0.309 9 71,918,208 MAMDC2 intron 0 rs6436753 8.44E−04 −0.206 0.944 0.222 2 228,703,258 SPHKAP intron 0 rs2717329 8.44E−04 0.207 0.944 0.471 7 19,029,300 HDAC9 3′-downstream 25,782 rs13275618 8.46E−04 −0.207 0.944 0.382 8 141,298,387 NIBP intron 0 rs2837008 8.49E−04 0.206 0.944 0.305 21 39,695,357 LCA5L 3′-downstream 4,283 rs9392684 8.49E−04 0.208 0.944 0.434 6 5,371,264 FARS2 intron 0 rs7545496 8.50E−04 −0.206 0.944 0.087 1 190,777,580 RGS1 5′-upstream 33,900 rs897405 8.52E−04 0.206 0.944 0.338 6 68,867,259 LOC100128293 3′-downstream 165,964 rs10831908 8.53E−04 −0.208 0.944 0.291 11 12,768,995 TEAD1 intron 0 rs2581830 8.53E−04 −0.207 0.944 0.429 3 53,109,138 RFT1 intron 0 rs12701867 8.54E−04 −0.208 0.944 0.114 7 41,197,194 C7orf10 3′-downstream 330,312 rs13428208 8.54E−04 0.206 0.944 0.051 2 128,744,772 HS6ST1 intron 0 rs17814562 8.55E−04 0.206 0.944 0.054 12 106,553,998 BTBD11 intron 0 rs12417886 8.59E−04 −0.206 0.944 0.291 11 12,768,307 TEAD1 intron 0 rs12607786 8.59E−04 0.206 0.944 0.264 18 27,672,175 KIAA1012 intron 0 rs437168 8.60E−04 0.206 0.944 0.225 19 41,026,259 NPHS1 synonymous 0 rs1392934 8.64E−04 −0.206 0.944 0.417 17 47,425,763 CA10 intron 0 rs11674390 8.64E−04 0.206 0.944 0.074 2 45,258,664 SIX2 5′-upstream 168,638 rs4758578 8.64E−04 0.206 0.944 0.078 11 3,354,643 ZNF195 intron 0 rs2663989 8.67E−04 0.206 0.944 0.143 15 42,325,952 CASC4 5′-upstream 42,269 rs828560 8.69E−04 0.206 0.944 0.374 6 165,929,442 PDE10A intron 0 rs4909747 8.69E−04 0.206 0.944 0.191 8 139,260,139 FAM135B intron 0 rs6682208 8.70E−04 0.206 0.944 0.478 1 202,832,806 LRRN2 3′-downstream 20,118 rs2252505 8.73E−04 −0.206 0.944 0.400 5 10,292,278 LOC134145 synonymous 0 rs875521 8.73E−04 0.206 0.944 0.219 3 124,992,028 MYLK intron 0 rs11629141 8.75E−04 0.206 0.944 0.125 14 96,597,819 LOC730133 3′-downstream 116,339 rs3820439 8.77E−04 −0.206 0.944 0.319 1 200,240,188 RNPEP missense 0 rs17023187 8.77E−04 0.206 0.944 0.045 4 148,542,379 LOC100130537 3′-downstream 24,197 rs6460688 8.78E−04 0.207 0.944 0.431 7 70,893,725 CALN1 intron 0 rs1981828 8.80E−04 −0.205 0.944 0.388 19 38,468,052 CEBPA 3′-downstream 14,724 rs17742014 8.80E−04 0.205 0.944 0.262 18 27,728,798 KIAA1012 intron 0 rs1494826 8.80E−04 0.207 0.944 0.134 5 116,553,682 LOC728342 5′-upstream 225,422 rs7120935 8.81E−04 0.208 0.944 0.270 11 21,036,518 NELL1 intron 0 rs4951407 8.84E−04 0.206 0.944 0.489 1 202,824,693 LRRN2 3′-downstream 28,231 rs560279 8.84E−04 0.205 0.944 0.352 11 121,528,721 MIRNLET7A2 5′-upstream 6,210 rs10954881 8.85E−04 0.205 0.944 0.406 8 30,134,238 DCTN6 intron 0 rs3935679 8.86E−04 0.205 0.944 0.334 5 97,504,067 PSME2P1 5′-upstream 70,679 rs12882488 8.87E−04 0.205 0.944 0.079 14 94,950,974 C14orf49 3′-downstream 2,610 rs16865402 8.89E−04 0.205 0.944 0.081 3 191,536,737 CLDN1 5′-upstream 13,828 rs6789805 8.89E−04 0.205 0.944 0.081 3 191,537,787 CLDN1 5′-upstream 14,878 rs6801146 8.89E−04 0.205 0.944 0.081 3 191,537,856 CLDN1 5′-upstream 14,947 rs17152434 8.89E−04 0.208 0.944 0.199 5 124,579,475 LOC644659 Unknown — rs9590371 8.90E−04 −0.209 0.944 0.356 13 95,658,077 HS6ST3 intron 0 rs6969427 8.91E−04 0.208 0.944 0.333 7 152,673,499 FLJ42291 3′-downstream 40,448 rs12815715 8.92E−04 0.206 0.944 0.093 12 7,380,620 ACSM4 3′-downstream 8,384 rs10808355 8.92E−04 0.205 0.944 0.412 8 98,455,047 TSPYL5 5′-upstream 95,695 rs10868721 8.93E−04 0.207 0.944 0.062 9 89,974,849 LOC389768 5′-upstream 6,279 rs1882055 8.94E−04 0.205 0.944 0.153 7 36,062,475 LOC100129326 Unknown — rs10205005 8.94E−04 0.205 0.944 0.132 2 42,102,217 LOC91461 5′-upstream 27,040 rs9599779 8.94E−04 0.208 0.944 0.246 13 70,578,186 DACH1 3′-downstream 331,913 rs4451621 8.94E−04 0.205 0.944 0.412 10 12,471,373 CAMK1D intron 0 rs3217916 8.95E−04 0.206 0.944 0.397 12 4,278,934 CCND2 intron 0 rs2535357 8.95E−04 0.205 0.944 0.431 18 57,293,491 CDH20 5′-upstream 15,264 rs6560606 8.96E−04 0.205 0.944 0.236 9 79,352,869 GNA14 intron 0 rs11997340 8.97E−04 −0.206 0.944 0.388 8 3,822,506 CSMD1 intron 0 rs6770415 8.98E−04 −0.205 0.944 0.255 3 13,242,771 NUP210 3′-downstream 89,966 rs4304369 8.98E−04 −0.207 0.944 0.335 9 1,725,113 SMARCA2 5′-upstream 280,229 rs10900597 8.99E−04 0.205 0.944 0.500 1 202,789,112 MDM4 3′-downstream 2,763 rs13152233 9.01E−04 0.205 0.944 0.072 4 143,296,300 INPP4B intron 0 rs8070612 9.01E−04 0.205 0.944 0.056 17 18,840,335 SLC5A10 intron 0 rs12474898 9.01E−04 0.205 0.944 0.199 2 236,032,106 CENTG2 5′-upstream 35,369 rs7279643 9.02E−04 −0.205 0.944 0.424 21 46,200,229 PCBP3 3′-downstream 13,434 rs6959836 9.04E−04 −0.205 0.944 0.112 7 5,065,893 RBAK intron 0 rs12702227 9.04E−04 0.205 0.944 0.052 7 46,519,896 LOC730338 3′-downstream 175,480 rs12702228 9.04E−04 0.205 0.944 0.052 7 46,522,406 LOC730338 3′-downstream 172,970 rs1265178 9.06E−04 0.205 0.944 0.120 6 31,269,208 HCG27 5′-upstream 4,370 rs920499 9.09E−04 −0.205 0.944 0.366 14 104,437,544 KIAA0284 3′-downstream 3,412 rs5985614 9.09E−04 0.205 0.944 0.235 23 110,696,134 LOC643873 3′-downstream 52,136 rs1684149 9.11E−04 0.205 0.944 0.187 12 32,162,607 BICD1 intron 0 rs17708126 9.11E−04 0.205 0.944 0.056 7 14,221,389 DGKB intron 0 rs2018445 9.12E−04 0.211 0.944 0.268 11 43,117,351 LOC100128134 5′-upstream 62,408 rs1798 9.12E−04 0.205 0.944 0.195 1 205,082,748 IL19 3′-UTR 0 rs7524812 9.12E−04 0.205 0.944 0.081 1 97,342,695 DPYD intron 0 rs12672751 9.12E−04 −0.208 0.944 0.341 7 133,745,915 AKR1B1 3′-downstream 31,732 rs9302094 9.13E−04 −0.207 0.944 0.371 13 95,650,741 HS6ST3 intron 0 rs8076286 9.14E−04 −0.205 0.944 0.431 17 47,451,755 CA10 intron 0 rs3775763 9.14E−04 0.206 0.944 0.482 4 70,929,238 HTN3 intron 0 rs2804875 9.14E−04 −0.205 0.944 0.242 10 33,883,553 NRP1 5′-upstream 219,714 rs4556834 9.15E−04 0.205 0.944 0.300 17 47,549,854 CA10 intron 0 rs11023907 9.16E−04 0.209 0.944 0.152 11 16,281,025 SOX6 intron 0 rs2974000 9.18E−04 0.206 0.944 0.191 5 119,230,346 LOC348958 3′-downstream 184,639 rs7307293 9.18E−04 0.205 0.944 0.094 12 67,114,413 LOC729376 intron 0 rs9323880 9.18E−04 −0.205 0.944 0.271 14 92,199,563 RIN3 intron 0 rs10022167 9.19E−04 0.206 0.944 0.460 4 74,497,673 ALB intron 0 rs6896653 9.20E−04 0.206 0.944 0.164 5 107,732,780 FBXL17 intron 0 rs1727387 9.20E−04 0.205 0.944 0.079 12 118,356,085 CCDC60 intron 0 rs831571 9.20E−04 0.205 0.944 0.253 3 64,023,337 PRICKLE2 3′-downstream 31,250 rs1235399 9.20E−04 0.208 0.944 0.074 5 136,761,637 SPOCK1 intron 0 rs1428280 9.20E−04 0.205 0.944 0.067 5 13,640,660 LOC391738 3′-downstream 50,364 rs9542594 9.22E−04 0.205 0.944 0.206 13 70,617,166 DACH1 3′-downstream 292,933 rs17540362 9.23E−04 −0.205 0.944 0.112 7 11,263,913 PHF14 3′-downstream 88,143 rs5751080 9.23E−04 −0.205 0.944 0.493 22 40,066,213 ZC3H7B intron 0 rs12955535 9.23E−04 0.205 0.944 0.090 18 74,145,153 LOC100132713 5′-upstream 214,048 rs896088 9.25E−04 0.205 0.944 0.419 5 165,875,957 LOC441114 3′-downstream 133,588 rs447278 9.27E−04 0.205 0.944 0.406 6 5,398,289 FARS2 intron 0 rs7773352 9.29E−04 0.205 0.944 0.273 6 108,423,962 LOC642741 3′-downstream 8,220 rs1887309 9.30E−04 −0.205 0.944 0.431 9 136,448,063 RXRA intron 0 rs7283239 9.32E−04 0.205 0.944 0.070 21 21,062,388 PPIAP 5′-upstream 59,610 rs361488 9.32E−04 0.205 0.944 0.487 7 141,727,289 TRBV8-1 Unknown — rs10508612 9.32E−04 0.206 0.944 0.440 10 20,425,576 PLXDC2 intron 0 rs7256207 9.33E−04 0.205 0.944 0.149 19 33,539,522 LOC727780 5′-upstream 43,275 rs838600 9.33E−04 −0.205 0.944 0.496 3 144,698,162 SLC9A9 intron 0 rs11002468 9.35E−04 0.208 0.944 0.307 10 79,682,057 LOC100132987 5′-upstream 154,250 rs10921053 9.35E−04 0.204 0.944 0.215 1 190,234,692 RGS18 5′-upstream 159,523 rs674424 9.35E−04 0.204 0.944 0.146 11 118,535,962 ABCG4 intron 0 rs9447089 9.36E−04 −0.204 0.944 0.139 6 74,751,120 CD109 3′-downstream 156,359 rs2290 9.39E−04 0.204 0.944 0.056 4 121,875,517 PRDM5 intron 0 rs2409758 9.41E−04 0.205 0.944 0.380 21 36,412,525 LOC100133286 intron 0 rs10019178 9.42E−04 −0.204 0.944 0.424 4 16,139,177 LDB2 intron 0 rs7050164 9.42E−04 −0.204 0.944 0.159 23 7,668,041 VCX 5′-upstream 102,262 rs12740426 9.42E−04 −0.204 0.944 0.482 1 6,237,066 GPR153 intron 0 rs4375446 9.43E−04 −0.204 0.944 0.314 11 66,667,402 FBXL11 intron 0 rs2581806 9.44E−04 0.204 0.944 0.338 3 53,038,400 SFMBT1 intron 0 rs1778913 9.44E−04 0.205 0.944 0.266 9 86,625,557 NTRK2 intron 0 rs2854541 9.44E−04 0.204 0.944 0.486 7 141,726,054 TRBV8-1 Unknown — rs12007499 9.44E−04 0.205 0.944 0.173 23 23,157,121 LOC653707 3′-downstream 30,532 rs4948700 9.45E−04 0.204 0.944 0.206 10 42,869,213 RET 5′-upstream 23,310 rs17711345 9.45E−04 −0.205 0.944 0.170 7 64,543,602 ZNF92 3′-downstream 40,169 rs9849264 9.45E−04 −0.205 0.944 0.409 3 126,651,497 SNX4 intron 0 rs2784846 9.47E−04 0.204 0.944 0.164 10 86,264,851 KIAA1128 3′-UTR 0 rs13065032 9.47E−04 −0.204 0.944 0.083 3 129,993,284 RAB7A intron 0 rs354113 9.47E−04 −0.205 0.944 0.174 12 30,425,805 IPO8 3′-downstream 247,384 rs7943820 9.48E−04 0.204 0.944 0.280 11 107,894,495 EXPH5 intron 0 rs10749486 9.48E−04 0.204 0.944 0.141 10 86,101,607 KIAA1128 intron 0 rs1209475 9.48E−04 0.204 0.944 0.141 10 86,248,339 KIAA1128 intron 0 rs4261230 9.48E−04 0.204 0.944 0.141 10 86,109,189 KIAA1128 intron 0 rs11584409 9.49E−04 0.204 0.944 0.058 1 95,957,886 LOC729977 5′-upstream 401,479 rs10243011 9.49E−04 −0.205 0.944 0.170 7 121,070,149 tcag7.23 5′-upstream 118,405 rs4845143 9.49E−04 0.209 0.944 0.379 1 205,069,942 IL19 intron 0 rs10493976 9.49E−04 0.204 0.944 0.181 1 102,036,497 OLFM3 3′-downstream 4,221 rs10249085 9.50E−04 −0.204 0.944 0.370 7 34,842,539 NPSR1 intron 0 rs3924091 9.52E−04 0.205 0.944 0.283 4 188,905,046 LOC644325 Unknown — rs12028349 9.52E−04 0.204 0.944 0.309 1 75,293,188 LHX8 5′-upstream 73,519 rs10861956 9.53E−04 0.204 0.944 0.296 12 107,578,604 CORO1C intron 0 rs7300726 9.53E−04 0.204 0.944 0.296 12 107,577,991 CORO1C intron 0 rs2405747 9.53E−04 0.204 0.944 0.054 2 128,748,295 HS6ST1 intron 0 rs6717511 9.53E−04 0.204 0.944 0.054 2 128,747,543 HS6ST1 intron 0 rs7229568 9.54E−04 0.204 0.944 0.184 18 4,814,081 PPIAP14 3′-downstream 178,430 rs17152492 9.54E−04 0.204 0.944 0.090 8 10,705,344 PINX1 intron 0 rs3752558 9.55E−04 0.204 0.944 0.108 20 41,621,277 SGK2 intron 0 rs6929812 9.56E−04 −0.205 0.944 0.473 6 27,492,499 MCFD2L 3′-downstream 8,745 rs2835623 9.58E−04 0.204 0.944 0.146 21 37,433,401 TTC3 intron 0 rs165190 9.60E−04 −0.204 0.944 0.391 5 139,126,284 PSD2 5′-upstream 29,306 rs11012265 9.60E−04 −0.204 0.944 0.289 10 21,010,483 NEBL 3′-downstream 99,610 rs11929275 9.60E−04 0.206 0.944 0.082 3 72,807,027 SHQ1 3′-downstream 74,091 rs981213 9.61E−04 0.204 0.944 0.341 12 77,115,380 NAV3 intron 0 rs11038044 9.62E−04 0.204 0.944 0.083 11 44,497,871 LOC646535 3′-downstream 20,034 rs1485803 9.62E−04 −0.206 0.944 0.385 18 22,880,887 CHST9 intron 0 rs12614728 9.62E−04 −0.204 0.944 0.237 2 76,502,501 LOC647275 5′-upstream 162,970 rs202124 9.63E−04 0.205 0.944 0.265 17 47,342,798 CA10 intron 0 rs748353 9.64E−04 0.204 0.944 0.183 11 105,164,699 GRIA4 intron 0 rs1250249 9.64E−04 0.204 0.944 0.464 2 215,995,521 FN1 intron 0 rs922140 9.65E−04 0.204 0.944 0.316 5 122,116,789 SNX2 5′-upstream 21,860 rs10268122 9.65E−04 −0.204 0.944 0.108 7 5,066,937 RBAK intron 0 rs1989614 9.68E−04 −0.204 0.944 0.421 2 80,259,773 CTNNA2 intron 0 rs4878192 9.68E−04 0.205 0.944 0.222 9 38,288,804 ALDH1B1 5′-upstream 93,898 rs4395807 9.69E−04 0.204 0.944 0.106 7 142,457,413 OR6V1 5′-upstream 2,147 rs16912758 9.69E−04 0.204 0.944 0.114 10 60,300,047 BICC1 3′-downstream 41,196 rs12204014 9.70E−04 0.204 0.944 0.341 6 67,456,669 NUFIP1P 5′-upstream 595,137 rs4105713 9.71E−04 0.205 0.944 0.425 12 118,937,703 CCDC64 intron 0 rs16834635 9.71E−04 −0.204 0.944 0.112 1 163,006,475 PBX1 intron 0 rs2816567 9.71E−04 0.204 0.944 0.237 6 87,065,440 LOC643916 5′-upstream 84,418 rs10494980 9.72E−04 0.204 0.944 0.144 1 212,725,200 PTPN14 intron 0 rs10839797 9.73E−04 0.204 0.944 0.442 11 7,502,978 PPFIBP2 intron 0 rs444386 9.76E−04 0.205 0.944 0.215 10 90,518,158 LIPN intron 0 rs4252725 9.77E−04 0.205 0.944 0.476 1 202,779,879 MDM4 intron 0 rs9868005 9.78E−04 0.204 0.944 0.433 3 64,607,454 ADAMTS9 intron 0 rs9383810 9.78E−04 0.204 0.944 0.081 6 156,895,326 ARID1B 5′-upstream 245,452 rs6913087 9.79E−04 0.204 0.944 0.208 6 54,245,008 C6orf142 3′-downstream 5,971 rs9687159 9.80E−04 −0.204 0.944 0.243 5 15,077,237 LOC402198 3′-downstream 19,353 rs2426278 9.81E−04 0.204 0.944 0.094 20 49,236,052 RPSAP1 5′-upstream 54,341 rs12197200 9.81E−04 0.204 0.944 0.054 6 163,503,111 PACRG intron 0 rs6965133 9.81E−04 −0.204 0.944 0.232 7 103,368,862 RELN intron 0 rs4806332 9.82E−04 0.204 0.944 0.173 19 33,548,847 LOC727780 5′-upstream 52,600 rs1019286 9.84E−04 0.204 0.944 0.188 7 38,426,876 AMPH intron 0 rs6520403 9.85E−04 −0.205 0.944 0.208 23 48,927,746 PRICKLE3 intron 0 rs17025652 9.85E−04 0.204 0.944 0.365 3 88,441,414 LOC344653 5′-upstream 7,582 rs8139876 9.85E−04 0.204 0.944 0.109 22 20,865,973 IGLVV-58 Unknown — rs4146616 9.85E−04 0.205 0.944 0.051 10 67,550,131 CTNNA3 intron 0 rs4767867 9.85E−04 0.204 0.944 0.412 12 118,906,208 CCDC64 5′-upstream 5,823 rs1280374 9.86E−04 −0.204 0.944 0.173 15 55,542,924 CGNL1 intron 0 rs2073505 9.87E−04 0.205 0.944 0.100 4 3,414,301 HGFAC synonymous 0 rs12410848 9.89E−04 0.204 0.944 0.306 1 111,636,507 CHIA intron 0 rs9562045 9.89E−04 0.204 0.944 0.466 13 95,638,906 HS6ST3 intron 0 rs34922583 9.90E−04 0.203 0.944 0.139 5 40,169,516 LOC285634 5′-upstream 376,069 rs12890069 9.90E−04 0.204 0.944 0.073 14 51,827,323 LOC100131689 3′-downstream 1,506 rs5023021 9.91E−04 0.204 0.944 0.120 9 11,094,151 LOC646114 3′-downstream 63,866 rs17134115 9.93E−04 0.204 0.944 0.091 7 51,008,773 COBL 3′-downstream 42,631 rs13021679 9.93E−04 0.203 0.944 0.446 2 215,984,620 FN1 intron 0 rs10962894 9.93E−04 −0.205 0.944 0.297 9 1,716,601 SMARCA2 5′-upstream 288,741 *R values represent correlation coefficients for the association.

“Integrated analyses” of SNPs with both expression array and cytotoxicity data were started with the 1335 SNPs that had p values<10⁻³. When the locations of these 1335 SNPs were determined, 27 regions were identified that each contained at least 2 SNPs with p values<10⁻⁴ within 50 kb (a total of 175 SNPs). For purposes of this analysis, each of these regions was defined as a “locus” or a “SNP peak region.” All 27 of these loci, and the SNPs within each locus, are listed in Table 8. These “loci” were the focus of the integrated analyses. The most significant locus, locus 8C, mapped to chromosome 8 (FIG. 5C and Table 8). This region had 6 SNPs within 50 kb with p values<10⁻⁴, including the SNP with the lowest p value (3.82×10⁻⁷). The gene closest to this region encoded PLEKHF2. All 6 of the SNPs were in tight linkage disequilibrium (LD), with R² values that ranged from 0.7 to 1.0 in CAs, with slightly lower values in the AA subjects (FIG. 6). The allele frequencies for these SNPs also were higher in CA and AA subjects than in HCA subjects. SNPs not on the genotyping platforms that were located 200 kb up or downstream of SNP A-8538282, the most significant SNP on chromosome 8 (see FIG. 5C) also were imputed. That area contained 222 “observed SNPs” that were on the combined Illumina and Affymetrix platforms, plus 104 SNPs that were imputed (FIG. 5C).

TABLE 8 The 27 “loci” associated with radiation AUC Location P R Q Relative To Locus SNP ID value value* value MAF Chr Position GeneSymbol^(†) Location Gene (bp) 1A rs1130790 1.88E-04 0.230 0.857 0.348 1 200,235,705 RNPEP exon 0 rs4131469 8.86E-05 0.241 0.853 0.350 1 200,237,705 RNPEP intron 0 rs12119699 2.31E-04 0.227 0.891 0.348 1 200,239,578 RNPEP intron 0 rs3820439 8.77E-04 −0.206 0.944 0.319 1 200,240,188 RNPEP exon 0 rs7516412 7.28E-04 −0.209 0.944 0.305 1 200,242,824 ELF3 5'-upstream 872 rs2819358 2.31E-04 0.227 0.891 0.348 1 200,243,025 ELF3 5'-upstream 671 rs2735784 9.48E-05 0.240 0.853 0.375 1 200,243,103 ELF3 5'-upstream 593 rs2819360 3.17E-04 0.222 0.932 0.341 1 200,243,877 ELF3 5'-UTR 0 1B rs4951407 8.84E-04 0.206 0.944 0.489 1 202,824,693 LRRN2 3'-downstream 28,231 rs6679717 6.89E-04 0.212 0.944 0.480 1 202,827,300 LRRN2 3'-downstream 25,624 rs4951409 6.26E-04 0.211 0.944 0.475 1 202,827,613 LRRN2 3'-downstream 25,311 rs7532236 6.26E-04 0.211 0.944 0.475 1 202,828,240 LRRN2 3'-downstream 24,684 rs6682208 8.70E-04 0.206 0.944 0.478 1 202,832,806 LRRN2 3'-downstream 20,118 rs6594018 6.56E-04 0.210 0.944 0.478 1 202,834,775 LRRN2 3'-downstream 18,149 rs11240764 6.28E-04 0.211 0.944 0.475 1 202,835,999 LRRN2 3'-downstream 16,925 rs10900601 7.37E-05 0.244 0.845 0.227 1 202,838,673 LRRN2 3'-downstream 14,251 rs898387 1.24E-05 0.268 0.696 0.235 1 202,845,996 LRRN2 3''-downstream 6,928 rs898386 4.22E-05 0.253 0.727 0.229 1 202,846,320 LRRN2 3'-downstream 6,604 rs2045624 4.51E-05 0.251 0.727 0.258 1 202,851,008 LRRN2 3'-downstream 1,916 rs7539399 3.08E-04 0.222 0.932 0.269 1 202,856,667 LRRN2 intron 0 rs884108 1.07E-04 0.241 0.853 0.180 1 202,857,860 LRRN2 intron 0 rs4951088 1.20E-04 0.237 0.857 0.471 1 202,877,403 LRRN2 intron 0 rs4951089 1.60E-04 0.232 0.857 0.475 1 202,877,521 LRRN2 intron 0 rs11240237 1.60E-04 0.232 0.857 0.475 1 202,879,141 LRRN2 intro 0 rs11240239 1.22E-04 0.237 0.857 0.469 1 202,879,427 LRRN2 intron 0 rs10900418 4.20E-04 0.218 0.944 0.309 1 202,880,789 LRRN2 intron 0 rs2772227 2.00E-04 0.229 0.865 0.152 1 202,882,023 LRRN2 intron 0 rs1329631 2.31E-04 0.227 0.891 0.307 1 202,883,013 LRRN2 intron 0 rs2815832 4.95E-04 0.215 0.944 0.168 1 202,883,863 LRRN2 intron 0 1C rs1028182 2.65E-04 0.225 0.932 0.406 1 205,068,502 IL19 intron 0 rs4845143 9.49E-04 0.209 0.944 0.379 1 205,069,942 IL19 intron 0 rs12022129 8.37E-04 0.206 0.944 0.394 1 205,069,997 IL19 intron 0 rs11119670 7.45E-05 0.244 0.845 0.442 1 205,071,944 IL19 intron 0 rs2243174 7.04E-05 0.244 0.843 0.444 1 205,078,108 IL19 intron 0 rs2243188 7.11E-05 0.244 0.843 0.442 1 205,081,095 IL19 intron 0 rs1798 9.12E-04 0.205 0.944 0.195 1 205,082,748 IL19 3'-UTR 0 rs2243193 9.77E-05 0.240 0.853 0.453 1 205,082,848 IL19 3'-UTR 0 rs4845144 3.50E-04 0.222 0.932 0.458 1 205,083,271 TL19 3'-downstream 324 rs2883036 3.99E-04 −0.221 0.944 0.361 1 205,091,385 TL19 3'-downstream 8,438 1D rs780266 1.55E-04 0.233 0.857 0.071 1 231,791,723 KCNK1 5'-upstream 24,650 rs1773951 1.34E-04 0.235 0.857 0.070 1 231,802,262 KCNK1 5'-upstream 14,111 rs1693219 5.89E-05 0.247 0.823 0.289 1 231,807,892 KCNK1 5'-upstream 8,481 rs1693216 6.50E-05 0.247 0.843 0.286 1 231,808,517 KCNK1 5'-upstream 7,856 rs780256 2.67E-04 0.225 0.932 0.288 1 231,809,726 KCNK1 5'-upstream 6,647 rs636811 8.09E-04 0.207 0.944 0.090 1 231,815,644 KCNK1 5'-upstream 729 1E rs12569163 1.78E-06 0.292 0.394 0.118 1 239,945,170 WDR64 intron 0 rs7554126 4.34E-06 0.287 0.667 0.297 1 239,953,804 WDR64 intron 0 3A rs894013 3.19E-05 0.261 0.711 0.472 3 4,353,142 SETMAR 3'-downstream 19,193 rs308731 8.21E-05 0.242 0.853 0.365 3 4,354,374 SETMAR 3'-downstream 20,425 3B rs1469569 7.28E-04 −0.209 0.944 0.421 3 88,158,887 CGGBP1 3'-downstream 24,903 rs17549345 5.39E-05 −0.248 0.777 0.336 3 88,163,269 CGGBP1 3'-downstream 20,521 rs6785333 8.00E-04 −0.209 0.944 0.414 3 88,168,323 CGGBP1 3'-downstream 15,467 rs9852704 9.86E-05 −0.240 0.853 0.406 3 88,171,034 CGGBP1 3'-downstream 12,756 4A rs13127174 2.86E-04 0.224 0.932 0.157 4 16,137,569 LDB2 intron 0 rs10019178 9.42E-04 −0.204 0.944 0.424 4 16,139,177 LDB2 intron 0 rs10805350 3.50E-04 0.222 0.932 0.313 4 16,140,499 LDB2 intron 0 rs13138387 1.70E-04 0.232 0.857 0.065 4 16,142,474 LDB2 intron 0 rs10516301 4.97E-05 0.250 0.750 0.072 4 16,143,251 LDB2 intron 0 rs16893606 7.49E-04 0.208 0.944 0.173 4 16,146,608 LDB2 intron 0 rs881790 3.46E-04 0.221 0.932 0.195 4 16,147,055 LDB2 intron 0 rs13128522 2.38E-05 0.260 0.696 0.060 4 16,149,782 LDB2 intron 0 4B rs2078395 5.90E-04 0.213 0.944 0.443 4 181,140,358 hCG_2025798 3'-downstream 1,081,878 rs35018391 3.23E-05 0.255 0.711 0.049 4 181,217,870 hCG_2025798 3'-downstream 1,004,366 rs41333347 3.23E-05 0.255 0.711 0.049 4 181,227,186 hCG_2025798 3'-downstream 995,050 rs7680285 3.23E-05 0.255 0.711 0.049 4 181,228,438 hCG_2025798 3′-downstream 993,798 rs2309341 9.04E-05 −0.241 0.853 0.433 4 181,590,726 hCG_2025798 3′-downstream 631,510 4C rs11726299 5.15E-04 −0.214 0.944 0.190 4 183,556,319 ODZ3 intron 0 rs727695 1.42E-04 0.235 0.857 0.313 4 183,610,140 ODZ3 intron 0 rs7676392 1.73E-05 0.264 0.696 0.281 4 183,613,233 ODZ3 intron 0 rs6830998 1.28E-04 0.237 0.857 0.279 4 183,617,946 ODZ3 intron 0 rs869239 1.60E-05 0.265 0.696 0.495 4 183,690,033 ODZ3 intron 0 rs2309691 5.36E-05 0.248 0.777 0.491 4 183,691,063 ODZ3 intron 0 rs11731599 2.98E-05 0.257 0.711 0.489 4 183,691,126 ODZ3 intron 0 rs6840083 3.01E-04 0.223 0.932 0.421 4 183,701,671 ODZ3 intron 0 5A rs26953 1.78E-04 −0.233 0.857 0.326 5 59,850,071 PART1 intron 0 rs27564 5.55E-05 −0.251 0.791 0.325 5 59,873,391 PART1 3′-downstream 20,403 rs6863920 7.37E-04 −0.209 0.944 0.304 5 59,898,210

3′-downstream 30,286 rs6449478 3.26E-04 −0.224 0.932 0.267 5 59,909,466

3′-downstream 19,030 rs2409791 1.09E-05 −0.270 0.696 0.280 5 59,920,074

3′-downstream 8,422 rs4326096 3.41E-05 −0.255 0.711 0.270 5 59,926,035

3′-downstream 2,461 rs206789 5.74E-05 −0.248 0.810 0.313 5 59,939,728

intron 0 rs286158 1.34E-04 −0.235 0.857 0.309 5 59,970,010

intron 0 5B rs6884002 2.96E-04 −0.223 0.932 0.099 5 154,872,015 LOC100131033 3′-downstream 18,661 rs10051752 1.99E-04 −0.229 0.865 0.085 5 154,966,485 LOC100131033 3′-downstream 113,131 rs7704817 7.04E-04 −0.210 0.944 0.223 5 154,968,300 LOC100131033 3′-downstream 114,946 rs7379436 1.00E-04 0.239 0.853 0.074 5 155,158,726 LOC100131033 3′-downstream 305,372 rs10073856 9.49E-05 0.241 0.853 0.071 5 155,195,298 LOC100131033 3′-downstream 341,944 rs6873333 3.64E-05 0.254 0.711 0.072 5 155,195,850 LOC100131033 3′-downstream 342,496 rs7378774 7.71E-05 0.245 0.845 0.064 5 155,221,392 LOC100131033 3′-downstream 368,038 7A rs12702213 9.29E-05 0.240 0.853 0.058 7 46,381,080 LOC730338 3′-downstream 314,296 rs13239088 6.64E-05 0.249 0.843 0.054 7 46,381,408 LOC730338 3′-downstream 313,968 rs12702227 9.04E-04 0.205 0.944 0.052 7 46,519,896 LOC730338 3′-downstream 175,480 rs12702228 9.04E-04 0.205 0.944 0.052 7 46,522,406 LOC730338 3′-downstream 172,970 7B rs17598132 1.89E-05 0.263 0.696 0.076 7 96,417,275 FLJ34048 3′-downstream 53,620 rs17598306 8.60E-06 0.273 0.696 0.079 7 96,419,747 FLJ34048 3′-downstream 51,148 rs2016644 4.86E-04 0.216 0.944 0.087 7 96,433,985 FLJ34048 3′-downstream 36,910 rs17657370 3.34E-05 0.255 0.711 0.078 7 96,444,428 FLJ34048 3′-downstream 26,467 7C rs13222164 4.97E-04 0.215 0.944 0.150 7 108,885,600 LOC100128056 5′-downstream 380,818 rs12705596 1.75E-05 0.263 0.696 0.161 7 108,893,619 LOC100128056 5′-downstream 372,799 rs12705601 4.80E-05 0.250 0.740 0.161 7 108,923,348 LOC100128056 5′-downstream 343,070 rs12705602 7.91E-05 0.243 0.845 0.166 7 108,929,460 LOC100128056 5′-downstream 336,958 rs13239901 5.90E-04 0.213 0.944 0.232 7 108,935,937 LOC100128056 5′-downstream 330,481 7D rs10240447 7.41E-05 0.244 0.845 0.495 7 157,460,585 PTPRN2 intron 0 rs4716858 6.74E-05 −0.245 0.843 0.468 7 157,461,158 PTPRN2 intron 0 8A rs10098626 7.78E-04 0.208 0.944 0.442 8 35,008,456 LOC100133273 3′-downstream 156,685 rs10503973 8.36E-04 0.207 0.944 0.219 8 35,018,804 LOC100133273 3′-downstream 167,033 rs10503974 7.71E-04 0.208 0.944 0.218 8 35,018,934 LOC100133273 3′-downstream 167,163 rs10954975 5.56E-04 0.213 0.944 0.217 8 35,019,032 LOC100133273 3′-downstream 167,261 rs11786195 4.68E-04 0.216 0.944 0.204 8 35,020,843 LOC100133273 3′-downstream 169,072 rs12678629 4.19E-04 0.218 0.944 0.215 8 35,025,990 LOC100133273 3′-downstream 174,219 rs13282927 2.71E-04 0.226 0.932 0.212 8 35,031,277 LOC100133273 3′-downstream 179,506 rs1376519 1.22E-04 0.238 0.857 0.244 8 35,045,674 LOC100133273 3′-downstream 193,903 rs2981309 6.62E-05 0.249 0.843 0.241 8 35,048,829 LOC100133273 3′-downstream 197,058 rs4314649 3.10E-05 0.257 0.711 0.242 8 35,052,669 LOC100133273 3′-downstream 200,898 rs2923661 3.46E-05 0.255 0.711 0.240 8 35,061,182 LOC100133273 3′-downstream 209,411 rs2981317 2.37E-04 0.227 0.891 0.200 8 35,069,374 LOC100133273 3′-downstream 217,603 rs4739296 6.64E-04 0.210 0.944 0.215 8 35,073,349 LOC100133273 3′-downstream 221,578 8B rs7835942 8.01E-05 −0.243 0.845 0.227 8 61,960,345 CHD7 3′-downstream 18,326 rs4738839 8.01E-05 −0.243 0.845 0.227 8 61,960,444 CHD7 3′-downstream 18,425 8C rs1610110 9.58E-07 0.299 0.318 0.083 8 96,185,038

5′-downstream 30,170 rs1561715 9.58E-07 0.299 0.318 0.083 8 96,189,090

5′-downstream 26,118 rs1561714 2.14E-05 0.261 0.696 0.087 8 96,189,151

5′-downstream 26,057 rs4392868 8.24E-06 0.274 0.696 0.087 8 96,189,248

5′-downstream 25,960 rs700734 3.82E-07 0.309 0.259 0.081 8 96,196,206

5′-downstream 19,002 rs212551 6.85E-05 0.245 0.843 0.132 8 96,201,280

5′-downstream 13,928 8D rs11559202 6.57E-05 0.245 0.843 0.141 8 99,075,912 MATN2 exon 0 rs1559201 6.57E-05 0.245 0.843 0.141 8 99,075,924 MATN2 exon 0 rs2290467 1.48E-04 0.234 0.857 0.108 8 99,109,330 MATN2 intron 0 rs2279120 2.13E-04 0.232 0.871 0.112 8 99,115,216 MATN2 intron 0 rs3088121 9.52E-05 0.241 0.853 0.105 8 99,117,225 MATN2 3′-UTR 0 8E rs4463400 2.06E-04 0.229 0.867 0.148 8 141,289,178

intron 0 rs6578080 3.31E-04 0.222 0.932 0.228 8 141,291,830

intron 0 rs4397386 1.03E-04 0.242 0.853 0.214 8 141,294,034

intron 0 rs7387053 5.14E-05 0.249 0.757 0.218 8 141,295,342

intron 0 rs4487737 5.14E-05 0.249 0.757 0.218 8 141,296,740

intron 0 rs13275618 8.46E-04 −0.207 0.944 0.382 8 141,298,387

intron 0 rs6578083 7.41E-05 −0.244 0.845 0.374 8 141,299,161

intron 0 rs7814976 4.80E-04 −0.221 0.944 0.334 8 141,306,070

intron 0 rs7841539 5.82E-04 −0.212 0.944 0.496 8 141,308,196

intron 0 rs6578084 3.66E-04 −0.220 0.932 0.366 8 141,311,849

intron 0 rs9324519 3.96E-04 −0.219 0.944 0.375 8 141,312,047

intron 0 9A rs12553351 1.49E-05 0.265 0.696 0.117 9 6,828,348

intron 0 rs4742269 4.73E-06 0.280 0.667 0.139 9 6,839,317

intron 0 9B rs5023021 9.91E-04 0.204 0.944 0.120 9 11,094,151 LOC646114 3′-downstream 63,866 rs109595S4 2.33E-04 0.227 0.891 0.076 9 11,121,371 LOC646114 3′-downstream 91,086 rs7866090 4.45E-04 0.217 0.944 0.103 9 11,130,883 LOC646114 3′-downstream 100,598 rs10809359 2.22E-05 0.261 0.696 0.109 9 11,135,717 LOC646114 3′-downstream 105,432 rs12380191 7.47E-05 0.244 0.845 0.101 9 11,170,739 LOC646114 3′-downstream 140,454 rs12376660 3.71E-05 0.254 0.711 0.089 9 11,175,487 LOC646114 3′-downstream 145,202 rs12380100 1.55E-05 0.265 0.696 0.097 9 11,177,013 LOC646114 3′-downstream 146,728 rs10959622 1.02E-04 0.239 0.853 0.099 9 11,201,722 LOC646114 3′-downstream 171,437 rs11788082 8.03E-05 0.243 0.845 0.150 9 11,208,170 LOC646114 3′-downstream 177,885 rs10809395 2.50E-05 0.259 0.704 0.103 9 11,223,740 LOC646114 3′-downstream 193,455 rs10118338 6.89E-05 0.245 0.843 0.139 9 11,226,474 LOC646114 3′-downstream 196,189 rs10124468 3.48E-04 0.221 0.932 0.115 9 11,235,830 LOC646114 3′-downstream 205,545 10A rs11250461 1.19E-04 0.237 0.857 0.226 10 1,394,502 ADARB2 intron 0 rs11250464 5.61E-06 0.279 0.676 0.175 10 1,396,364 ADARB2 intron 0 rs4554799 9.00E-06 0.272 0.696 0.170 10 1,397,728 ADARB2 intron 0 rs2387653 6.69E-04 0.212 0.944 0.130 10 1,397,826 ADARB2 intron 0 rs4880503 4.54E-05 0.251 0.727 0.171 10 1,426,858 ADARB2 intron 0 rs11250496 1.38E-04 0.235 0.857 0.166 10 1,437,105 ADARB2 intron 0 rs10508213 1.68E-04 −0.232 0.857 0.112 10 1,601,165 ADARB2 intron 0 11A rs2862667 4.09E-05 0.252 0.725 0.266 11 43,099,468 LOC100128134 5′-downstream 44,525 rs10838023 7.64E-05 0.243 0.845 0.267 11 43,113,488 LOC100128134 5′-downstream 58,545 rs2018445 9.12E-04 0.211 0.944 0.268 11 43,117,351 LOC100128134 5′-downstream 62,408 20A rs10485526 8.30E-04 −0.206 0.944 0.361 20 15,383,203 MACROD2 intron 0 rs6079836 3.60E-05 −0.254 0.711 0.339 20 15,383,564 MACROD2 intron 0 rs6079839 3.60E-05 −0.254 0.711 0.339 20 15,384,282 MACROD2 intron 0 21A rs2776278 2.13E-04 −0.229 0.871 0.284 21 36,264,569 RPL23AP3 3′-downstream 45,524 rs2249118 2.41E-05 −0.260 0.696 0.364 21 36,277,829 RPL23AP3 3′-downstream 32,264 rs2212916 2.80E-05 −0.257 0.711 0.366 21 36,281,638 RPL23AP3 3′-downstream 28,455 rs2249599 5.19E-04 −0.215 0.944 0.251 21 36,281,873 RPL23AP3 3′-downstream 28,220 rs2249971 1.69E-04 −0.232 0.857 0.352 21 36,284,531 RPL23AP3 3′-downstream 25,562 rs7280598 6.44E-04 −0.211 0.944 0.285 21 36,295,016 RPL23AP3 3′-downstream 15,077 rs2032319 7.16E-04 −0.209 0.944 0.283 21 36,295,592 RPL23AP3 3′-downstream 14,501 *R values represent correlation coefficients for the association. ^(†)Genes selected for siRNA screening are highlighted by shading.

“Integrated” SNP, basal expression and radiation AUC analyses: The effect of genetic variation on radiation-induced cytotoxicity may result, in part, from the regulation of gene expression. Post radiation gene expression is known to be influenced by DNA sequence variation (Correa and Cheung (2004) Am. J. Hum. Genet. 75:885-890; and Smirnov et al. (2009) Nature 459:587-591. However, few studies have focused on basal gene expression levels and their possible relationship to radiation response, i.e., on information that might be used to predict response. Therefore, an “integrated analysis” that included data for SNPs, basal expression, and radiation AUC also was performed. Specifically, 175 SNPs were identified with p values<10⁻³ that mapped to the 27 identified “loci” (Table 8), and then data for the 54,000 basal expression array probe sets on the Affymetrix U133 Plus 2.0 platform were used to identify SNPs within those loci that might be associated with basal gene expression, in either a cis or trans fashion.

Specifically, 2,432 SNP-expression associations were observed for the 175 SNPs with p values<10⁻⁴. These 2,432 expression probe sets were correlated with radiation AUC, and probe sets with p values<10⁻³ for association with radiation AUC were identified. A less stringent p value cutoff was selected for this final step to capture as much information as possible, with the understanding that many of the associations would be false-positives. This “integrated analysis,” moving from “loci” to SNPs to expression, identified 50 unique SNPs located in 14 of the 27 loci that were significantly associated with data for 47 probe sets that represented 39 unique annotated genes, i.e., basal expression of these genes was associated with radiation AUC with p<10⁻³ (Table 9). None of the SNPs were in cis-regulatory regions, defined as 5Mb on either side of the gene identified. These 50 unique SNPs mapped to 8 different chromosomes, with at least 2 SNPs on each of those chromosomes. The four most significant “loci” or “SNP peak regions” mapped to chromosomes 1, 4, 5 and 8, respectively, and contained the LRRN2, IL19, KCNK1, LDB2, hCG_(—)2025798, DEPDC1B, LOC100131033 and PLEKHF2 genes (Table 9). The SNPs near PLEKHF2 within the “locus” on chromosome 8 (FIG. 5C) were particularly striking since they were associated with variation in the expression of six annotated genes, and variation in the expression of those genes was, in turn, significantly associated with radiation AUC. The chromosome 1 locus contained the largest number of SNPs (19) that were associated with radiation AUC, with p values that ranged from 10⁻³ to 10⁻⁴. Those 19 SNPs were significantly associated with the expression of 12 annotated genes that were also significantly associated with radiation AUC with p values that ranged from 10⁻³ to 10⁻⁴. Six annotated genes were associated with the locus on chromosome 8 that contained the most significant 6 linked SNPs (p values<10⁻⁴), and those 6 genes were significantly associated with radiation AUC, with p values<10⁻³. The chromosome 4 and 5 loci included 7 and 6 SNPs, respectively, that were associated with radiation AUC with p values that ranged from 10⁻³ to 10⁻⁴, and those SNPs were associated with the expression of 11 and 4 unique annotated genes, respectively, with p values that ranged from 10⁻⁴ to 10⁻⁷. Expression levels for those 15 genes also were associated with radiation AUC, with p values<10⁻³.

TABLES 9A, 9B, and 9C “Integrated analyses” with the top expression probe sets that were associated with SNPs within “loci” and with radiation AUC (SNP vs Expression p-value <10⁻⁴, and Expression vs AUC p-value <10⁻³). SNP 9A SNP ID MAF Chr Position Closest gene^(†)  1 rs13128522 0.060  4 16,149,782 LDB2  2 rs10516301 0.072  4 16,143,251 LDB2  3 rs13128522 0.060  4 16,149,782 LDB2  4 rs1 3138387 0.065  4 16,142,474 LDB2  5 rs13128522 0.060  4 16,149,782 LDB2  6 rs4742269 0.139  9 6,839,317

 7 rs12702213 0.058  7 46,381,080 LOC730338  8 rs13239088 0.054  7 46,381,408 LOC730338  9 rs6873333 0.072  5 155,195,850 LOC100131033  10 rs7378774 0.064  5 155,221,392 LOC100131033  11 rs10073856 0.071  5 155,195,298 LOC100131033  12 rs780266 0.071  1 231,791,723 KCNK1  13 rs1773951 0.070  1 231,802,262 KCNK1  14 rs10516301 0.072  4 16,143,251 LDB2  15 rs10805350 0.313  4 16,140,499 LDB2  16 rs13128522 0.060  4 16,149,782 LDB2  17 rs13138387 0.065  4 16,142,474 LDB2  18 rs898386 0.229  1 202,846,320 LRRN2  19 rs7539399 0.269  1 202,856,667 LRRN2  20 rs898387 0.235  1 202,845,996 LRRN2  21 rs898386 0.229  1 202,846,320 LRRN2  22 rs898387 0.235  1 202,845,996 LRRN2  23 rs1561715 0.083  8 96,189,090

 24 rs1610110 0.083  8 96,185,038

 25 rs7000734 0.081  8 96,196,206

 26 rs4392868 0.087  8 96,189,248

 27 rs13128522 0.060  4 16,149,782 LDB2  28 rs2883036 0.361  1 205,091,385 IL19  29 rs6873333 0.072  5 155,195,850 LOC100131033  30 rs7379436 0.074  5 155,158,726 LOC100131033  31 rs7378774 0.064  5 155,221,392 LOC100131033  32 rs10073856 0.071  5 155,195,298 LOC100131033  33 rs1561714 0.087  8 96,189,151

 34 rs1561715 0.083  8 96,189,090

 35 rs1610110 0 083  8 96,185,038

 36 rs7000734 0.081  8 96,196,206

 37 rs212551 0.132  8 96,201,280

 38 rs4392868 0.087  8 96,189,248

 39 rs13138387 0.065  4 16,142,474 LDB2  40 rs4951407 0.489  1 202,824,693 LRRN2  41 rs2212916 0.366 21 36,281,638 RPL23AP3  42 rs780256 0.288  1 231,809,726 KCNK1  43 rs1693219 0.289  1 231,807,892 KCNK1  44 rs1693216 0.286  1 231,808,517 KCNK1  45 rs2249971 0.352 21 36,284,531 RPL23AP3  46 rs212551 0.132  8 96,201,280

 47 rs7680285 0.049  4 181,228,438 hCG_2025798  48 rs35018391 0.049  4 181,217,870 hCG_2025798  49 rs41333347 0.049  4 181,227,186 hCG_2025798  50 rs780266 0.071  1 231,791,723 KCNK1  51 rs1773951 0.070  1 231,802,262 KCNK1  52 rs884108 0.180  1 202,857,860 LRRN2  53 rs11240237 0.475  1 202,879,141 LRRN2  54 rs11240239 0.469  1 202,879,427 LRRN2  55 rs4951089 0.475  1 202,877,521 LRRN2  56 rs4951088 0.471  1 202,877,403 LRRN2  57 rs11250496 0.166 10 1,437,105 ADARB2  58 rs212551 0.132  8 96,201,280 GET 44  59 rs13128522 0.060  4 16,149,782 LDB2  60 rs10516301 0.072  4 16,143,251 LDB2  61 rs13128522 0.060  4 16,149,782 LDB2  62 rs13138387 0.065  4 16,142,474 LDB2  63 rs17657370 0.078  7 96,444,428 FLJ34048  64 rs17598132 0.076  7 96,417,275 FLJ34048  65 rs898386 0.229  1 202,846,320 LRRN2  66 rs780266 0.071  1 231,791,723 KCNK1  67 rs1773951 0.070  1 231,802,262 KCNK1  68 rs1050821 0.112 10 1,601,165 ADARB2  69 rs898386 0.229  1 202,846,320 LRRN2  70 rs898387 0.235  1 202,845,996 LRRN2  71 rs1561715 0.083  8 96,189,090

 72 rs1610110 0.083  8 96,185,038

 73 rs7000734 0.081  8 96,196,206

 74 rs212551 0.132  8 96,201,280

 75 rs4392868 0.087  8 96,189,248

 76 rs13128522 0.060  4 16,149,782 LDB2  77 rs6873333 0.072  5 155,195,850 LOC100131033  78 rs7379436 0.074  5 155,158,726 LOC100131033  79 rs7378774 0.064  5 155,221,392 LOC100131033  80 rs10073856 0.071  5 155,195,298 LOC100131033  81 rs10516301 0.072  4 16,143,251 LDB2  82 rs13128522 0.060  4 16,149,782 LDB2  83 rs13138387 0.065  4 16,142,474 LDB2  84 rs13138387 0.065  4 16,142,474 LDB2  85 rs780266 0.071  1 231,791,723 KCNK1  86 rs1773951 0.070  1 231,802,262 KCNK1  87 rs1561715 0.083  8 96,189,090

 88 rs1610110 0.083  8 96,185,03

 89 rs7000734 0.081  8 96,196,206

 90 rs10516301 0.072  4 16,143,251 LDB2  91 rs884108 0.180  1 202,857,860 LRRN2  92 rs10516301 0.072  4 16,143,251 LDB2  93 rs13128522 0.060  4 16,149,782 LDB2  94 rs2243188 0.442  1 205,081,095 IL19  95 rs4845144 0.458  1 205,083,271 1L19  96 rs2243174 0.444  1 205,078,108 1L19  97 rs11119670 0.442  1 205,071,944 IL19  98 rs4326096 0.270  5 59,926,035

 99 rs2409791 0.280  5 59,920,074

100 rs13138387 0.065  4 16,142,474 LDB2 101 rs10959554 0.076  9 11,121,371 LOC646114 102 rs11250464 0.175 10 1,396,364 ADARB2 103 rs2387653 0.130 10 1,397,826 ADARB2 104 rs780266 0.071  1 231,791,723 KCNK1 105 rs1773951 0.070  1 231,802,262 KCNK1 106 rs1561715 0.083  8 96,189,090

107 rs1610110 0.083  8 96,185,038

108 rs7000734 0.081  8 96,196,206

109 rs4392868 0.087  8 96,189,248

9B Probe set ID Probe Chr Gene Symbol  1 204004_at 12

 2 207238_s_at  1 PTPRC  3 207238_s_at  1 PTPRC  4 207238_s_at  1 PTPRC  5 204005_s_at 12

 6 214173_x_at 19

 7 227806_at 16 C16orf74  8 227806_at 16 C16orf74  9 220953_s_at  5

 10 220953_s_at  5

 11 220953_s_at  5

 12 1557984_s_at 12 RPAP3  13 1557984_s_at 12 RPAP3  14 212588_at  1 PTPRC  15 212588_at  1 PTPRC  16 212588_at  1 PTPRC  17 212588_at  1 PTPRC  18 216685_s_at  9 MTAP  19 216685_s_at  9 MTAP  20 216685_s_at  9 MTAP  21 204652_s_at  7

 22 204652_s_at  7

 23 205981_s_at  4 ING2  24 205981_s_at  4 ING2  25 205981_s_at  4 ING2  26 205981_s_at  4 ING2  27 226231_at 20 —  28 1566001_at 16 —  29 201946_s_at 12 CCT2  30 201946_s_ at 12 CCT2  31 201946_s_ at 12 CCT2  32 201946_s_at 12 CCT2  33 1555852_at  6 —  34 1555852_at  6 —  35 1555852_at  6 —  36 1555852_at  6 —  37 1555852_at  6 —  38 1555852_at  6 —  39 203524_s_at 22 MPST  40 203218_at  5 MAPK9  41 213498_at 11 CREB3L1  42 202180_s_at 16 MVP  43 202180_s_at 16 MVP  44 202180_s_at 16 MVP  45 202180_s_at 16 MVP  46 202180_s_at 16 MVP  47 200650_s_at  1

 48 200650_s_at  1

 49 200650_s_at  1

 50 207079_s_at 14 MED6  51 207079_s_at 14 MED6  52 222714_s_at  8 LACTB2  53 222714_s_at  8 LACTB2  54 222714_s_at  8 LACTB2  55 222714_s_at  8 LACTB2  56 222714_s_at  8 LACTB2  57 224596_at  9 SLC44A1  58 1554271_a_at  1

 59 219501_at 13 ENOX1  60 206935_at 13 PCDH8  61 206935_at 13 PCDH8  62 206935_at 13 PCDH8  63 206935_at 13 PCDH8  64 206935_at 13 PCDH8  65 229173_at  2 KIAA1715  66 222387_s_at 16 VPS35  67 222387_s_at 16 VPS35  68 203353_s_at 18 MBD1  69 204444_at 10 KIF11  70 204444_at 10 KIF11  71 203856_at 14 VRK1  72 203856_at 14 VRK1  73 203856_at 14 VRK1  74 203856_at 14 VRK1  75 203856_at 14 VRK1  76 209016_s_at 12 KRT7  77 206220_s_at 13 RASA3  78 206220_s_at 13 RASA3  79 206220_s_at 13 RASA3  80 206220_s_at 13 RASA3  81 218584_at 12 TCTN1  82 218584_at 12 TCTN1  83 218584_at 12 TCTN1  84 225525_at 22 CTA-221G9.4/// LOC100131004  85 1554577_a_at 23 PSMD10  86 1554577_a_at 23 PSMD1Q  87 218634_at  1 PHLDA3  88 218634_at  1 PHLDA3  89 218634_at  1 PHLDA3  90 221698_s_at 12 CLEC7A  91 243721_at 18 —  92 212587_s_at  1 PTPRC  93 212587_s_at  1 PTPRC  94 235959_at  1 —  95 235959_at  1 —  96 235959_at  1 —  97 235959_at  1 —  98 219544_at 13

 99 219544_at 13

100 212124_at 10 ZMIZ1 101 1558794_at 10 LOC728190 102 209670_at 14 TRAC 103 209670_at 14 TRAC 104 1554493_s_at  2 THADA 105 1554493_s_at  2 THADA 106 215750_at 22 KIAA1659 107 215750_at 22 KIAA1659 108 215750_at 22 KIAA1659 109 215750_at 22 KIAA1659 9C GWAS R value* P value* R value P value R value P value (SNP vs (SNP vs (SNP vs (SNP vs (EXP vs (EXP vs ID Exp) Exp) AUC) AUC) AUC) AUC)  1 −0.251 3.53E-05 0.260 2.38E-05 −0.266 7.46E-06  2 −0.275 5.16E-06 0.250 4.97E-05 −0.264 8.81E-06  3 −0.288 1.74E-06 0.260 2.38E-05 −0.264 8.81E-06  4 −0.277 4.31E-06 0.232 1.70E-04 −0.264 8.81E-06  5 −0.276 5.00E-06 0.260 2.38E-05 −0.261 1.10E-05  6 −0.238 8.37E-05 0.280 4.73E-06 −0.254 1.83E-05  7 −0.250 3.48E-05 0.240 9.29E-05 −0.251 2.45E-05  8 −0.245 6.52E-05 0.249 6.64E-05 −0.251 2.45E-05  9 −0.242 6.14E-05 0.254 3.64E-05 −0.240 5.40E-05  10 −0.254 2.96E-05 0.245 7.71E-05 −0.240 5.40E-05  11 −0.247 4.40E-05 0.241 9.49E-05 −0.240 5.40E-05  12 −0.252 3.13E-05 0.233 1.55E-04 −0.239 5.94E-05  13 −0.252 2.91E-05 0.235 1.34E-04 −0.239 5.94E-05  14 −0.308 2.86E-07 0.250 4.97E-05 −0.233 8.78E-05  15 −0.253 3.14E-05 0.222 3.50E-04 −0.233 8.78E-05  16 −0.333 2.65E-08 0.260 2.38E-05 −0.233 8.78E-05  17 −0.294 9.98E-07 0.232 1.70E-04 −0.233 8.78E-05  18 −0.257 2.14E-05 0.253 4.22E-05 −0.233 9.19E-05  19 −0.242 6.39E-05 0.222 3.08E-04 −0.233 9.19E-05  20 −0.259 1.75E-05 0.268 1.24E-05 −0.233 9.19E-05  21 −0.278 4.32E-06 0.253 4.22E-05 −0.230 1.13E-04  22 −0.266 1.04E-05 0.268 1.24E-05 −0.230 1.13E-04  23 −0.248 4.09E-05 0.299 9.58E-07 −0.229 1.20E-04  24 −0.248 4.09E-05 0.299 9.58E-07 −0.229 1.20E-04  25 −0.239 7.62E-05 0.309 3.82E-07 −0.229 1.20E-04  26 −0.248 4.08E-05 0.274 8.24E-06 −0.229 1.20E-04  27 −0.271 7.48E-06 0.260 2.38E-05 −0.227 1.36E-04  28 −0.260 2.07E-05 −0.221 3.99E-04 0.224 1.70E-04  29 −0.284 2.35E-06 0.254 3.64E-05 −0.224 1.72E-04  30 −0.246 4.56E-05 0.239 1.00E-04 −0.224 1.72E-04  31 −0.283 3.10E-06 0.245 7.71E-05 −0.224 1.72E-04  32 −0.290 1.49E-06 0.241 9.49E-05 −0.224 1.72E-04  33 −0.295 8.57E-07 0.261 2.14E-05 −0.223 1.79E-04  34 −0.322 7.04E-08 0.299 9.58E-07 −0.223 1.79E-04  35 −0.322 7.04E-08 0.299 9.58E-07 −0.223 1.79E-04  36 −0.302 4.57E-07 0.309 3.82E-07 −0.223 1.79E-04  37 −0.239 7.95E-05 0.245 6.85E-05 −0.223 1.79E-04  38 −0.312 2.01E-07 0.274 8.24E-06 −0.223 1.79E-04  39 −0.252 2.93E-05 0.232 1.70E-04 −0.223 1.81E-04  40 −0.239 8.10E-05 0.206 8.84E-04 −0.221 2.10E-04  41 −0.237 8.99E-05 −0.257 2.80E-05 0.219 2.40E-04  42 0.261 1.54E-05 0.225 2.67E-04 0.219 2.47E-04  43 0.247 4.47E-05 0.247 5.89E-05 0.219 2.47E-04  44 0.253 3.15E-05 0.247 6.50E-05 0.219 2.47E-04  45 −0.241 6.89E-05 −0.232 1.69E-04 0.219 2.47E-04  46 0.258 1.87E-05 0.245 6.85E-05 0.219 2.47E-04  47 −0.242 6.36E-05 0.255 3.23E-05 −0.216 2.89E-04  48 −0.242 6.36E-05 0.255 3.23E-05 −0.216 2.89E-04  49 −0.242 6.36E-05 0.255 3.23E-05 −0.216 2.89E-04  50 −0.246 5.00E-05 0.233 1.55E-04 −0.213 3.60E-04  51 −0.242 6.23E-05 0.235 1.34E-04 −0.213 3.60E-04  52 −0.240 8.32E-05 0.241 1.07E-04 −0.211 4.07E-04  53 −0.242 6.33E-05 0.232 1.60E-04 −0.211 4.07E-04  54 −0.238 8.54E-05 0.237 1.22E-04 −0.211 4.07E-04  55 −0.252 2.94E-05 0.232 1.60E-04 −0.211 4.07E-04  56 −0.242 6.12E-05 0.237 1.20E-04 −0.211 4.07E-04  57 −0.254 2.65E-05 0.235 1.38E-04 −0.211 4.13E-04  58 −0.239 7.84E-05 0.245 6.85E-05 −0.211 4.14E-04  59 0.246 5.11E-05 0.260 2.38E-05 0.211 4.18E-04  60 0.276 4.76E-06 0.250 4.97E-05 0.209 4.55E-04  61 0.271 7.23E-06 0.260 2.38E-05 0.209 4.55E-04  62 0.245 4.92E-05 0.232 1.70E-04 0.209 4.55E-04  63 0.239 7.84E-05 0.255 3.34E-05 0.209 4.55E-04  64 0.245 5.33E-05 0.263 1.89E-05 0.209 4.55E-04  65 −0.245 5.33E-05 0.253 4.22E-05 −0.208 5.00E-04  66 −0.243 5.96E-05 0.233 1.55E-04 −0.208 5.03E-04  67 −0.242 6.21E-05 0.235 1.34E-04 −0.208 5.03 E-04  68 0.238 8.11E-05 −0.232 1.68E-04 −0.207 5.39E-04  69 −0.243 6.10E-05 0.253 4.22E-05 −0.207 5.44E-04  70 −0.236 9.50E-05 0.268 1.24E-05 −0.207 5.44E-04  71 −0.256 2.17E-05 0.299 9.58E-07 −0.206 5.68E-04  72 −0.256 2.17E-05 0.299 9.58E-07 −0.206 5.68E-04  73 −0.257 2.00E-05 0.309 3.82E-07 −0.206 5.68E-04  74 −0.280 3.27E-06 0.245 6.85E-05 −0.206 5.68E-04  75 −0.246 4.98E-05 0.274 8.24E-06 −0.206 5.68E-04  76 0.302 5.15E-07 0.260 2.38E-05 0.206 5.76E-04  77 −0.268 8.39E-06 0.254 3.64E-05 −0.205 5.83E-04  78 −0.241 6.83E-05 0.239 1.00E-04 −0.205 5.83E-04  79 −0.289 1.81E-06 0.245 7.71E-05 −0.205 5.83E-04  80 −0.264 1.28E-05 0.241 9.49E-05 −0.205 5.83E-04  81 0.312 1.98E-07 0.250 4.97E-05 0.205 5.88E-04  82 0.307 3.22E-07 0.260 2.38E-05 0.205 5.88E-04  83 0.246 4.84E-05 0.232 1.70E-04 0.205 5.88E-04  84 0.266 1.03E-05 0.232 1.70E-04 0.205 6.04E-04  85 −0.242 6.35E-05 0.233 1.55E-04 −0.204 6.21E-04  86 −0.247 4.22E-05 0.235 1.34E-04 −0.204 6.21E-04  87 0.237 9.02E-05 0.299 9.58E-07 0.204 6.21E-04  88 0.237 9.02E-05 0.299 9.58E-07 0.204 6.21E-04  89 0.241 6.88E-05 0.309 3.82E-07 0.204 6.21E-04  90 0.287 1.82E-06 0.250 4.97E-05 0.204 6.37E-04  91 0.250 4.19E-05 0.241 1.07E-04 0.203 6.73E-04  92 −0.248 4.31E-05 0.250 4.97E-05 −0.203 6.84E-04  93 −0.257 2.13E-05 0.260 2.38E-05 −0.203 6.84E-04  94 0.258 1.94E-05 0.244 7.11E-05 0.202 7.16E-04  95 0.240 8.31E-05 0.222 3.50E-04 0.202 7.16E-04  96 0.239 7.90E-05 0.244 7.04E-05 0.202 7.16E-04  97 0.239 8.17E-05 0.244 7.45E-05 0.202 7.16E-04  98 0.236 9.97E-05 −0.255 3.41E-05 −0.201 7.56E-04  99 0.245 4.86E-05 −0.270 1.09E-05 −0.201 7.56E-04 100 −0.244 5.55E-05 0.232 1.70E-04 −0.201 7.67E-04 101 0.241 7.10E-05 0.227 2.33E-04 0.200 8.40E-04 102 −0.241 7.38E-05 0.279 5.61E-06 −0.199 8.63E-04 103 −0.265 1.24E-05 0.212 6.69E-04 −0.199 8.63E-04 104 −0.246 4.77E-05 0.233 1.55E-04 −0.199 8.77E-04 105 −0.249 3.84E-05 0.235 1.34E-04 −0.199 8.77E-04 106 0.263 1.31E-05 0.299 9.58E-07 0.197 9.79E-04 107 0.263 1.31E-05 0.299 9.58E-07 0.197 9.79E-04 108 0.259 1.71E-05 0.309 3.82E-07 0.197 9.79E-04 109 0.250 3.73E-05 0.274 8.24E-06 0.197 9.79E-04 *R values represent correlation coefficients for each association. ^(†)Genes selected for siRNA screening are highlighted by shading.

Functional validation of candidate genes in tumor cell lines: The initial association experiments were performed with human LCLs. Since non-genetic factors might confound the results of these association studies, and since gene regulation is tissue specific Dimas et al. (2009) Science 325:1246-1250, studies were done with human tumor cell lines. Specifically, two pancreatic cancer cell lines (MIA-PaCa2; p53 mutant and HupT3; p53 mutant), and one cervical cancer cell line (HeLa; p53 wild type (WT)), were used to functionally validate association results obtained with LCLs. These functional experiments involved siRNA knockdown followed by MTS cytotoxicity assays and, subsequently, colony-forming assays. These three cancer cell lines were selected because of their relative sensitivity to radiation after testing with MTS assays.

Based on the analysis of the 54,000 basal expression probe sets, 1.3 million SNPs and radiation AUC data, as well as an evaluation of their biological function, 23 candidate genes identified as described herein were selected for siRNA screening with the tumor cell lines. These genes were chosen based on the following criteria: genes with at least one expression array probe set that had a p value<10⁻³ for association with radiation AUC; genes containing SNPs found within a “locus” associated with radiation AUC (p<10⁻⁴); or genes for which expression was associated with both AUC and SNPs (p<10⁻³ for AUC and p<10⁻⁴ for SNPs, i.e., the “integrated analysis”). In addition, the genes had to be expressed in the lymphoblastoid cell lines (expression level>50 after GCRMA normalization) and could not previously have been implicated in radiation sensitivity. Application of this approach resulted in the selection of 10 genes that were identified during the “integrated” analyses; 1 gene was selected based on the SNP-AUC analysis, and 12 genes were selected on the basis of the expression-AUC analysis. This overall selection strategy is depicted graphically in FIG. 7.

For functional validation, either two unvalidated siRNAs or one validated siRNA (based on QIAGEN data) were used to knockdown each of the 23 candidate genes. If two siRNAs were available, “significance” was defined as a gene with a significant change in apparent AUC for both siRNAs in comparison with a control siRNA. MTS assays were performed with all three tumor cell lines for all 23 of the genes selected for study. Knockdown of 7 genes had a significant effect on radiation sensitivity in one cell line, 3 genes were positive for two cell lines and knockdown of 2 genes significantly altered radiation sensitivity in all three cell lines (Table 10 and FIG. 8). Five genes were then selected for further study for which knockdown with specific siRNAs significantly altered radiation sensitivity in at least 2 cancer cell lines, specifically BORA (C13orf34), MAD2L1, PLK4, TPD52, and TTF1 (Table 10, FIG. 8). DEPDC1B also was included, even though this gene only showed an effect of knockdown on radiation sensitivity in HeLa cells, since two SNPs located 2.5 and 8.4 kb downstream of this gene (rs4326096 and rs2409791) were significantly correlated with the expression of BORA (p=9.97×10⁻⁵ and 4.86×10⁻⁵, respectively), a gene that displayed a functional effect on radiation-induced cytotoxicity in all three cancer cell lines (FIG. 8, Table 10). The two SNPs were highly linked (r²>0.9).

As the next step in the analysis, and to further confirm results obtained with the MTS assay, performed colony-forming assays were performed for these same six genes in the MIA-PaCa2, HupT3 and HeLa cells used to perform the MTS assays. A lung cancer cell line (A459) also was used, since radiation is commonly used to treat lung cancer. As shown graphically in FIG. 9, knockdown of BORA, DEPDC1B and TPD52 desensitized all four cell lines to radiation treatment. MAD2L1 knockdown had a significant impact on radiation effect in HeLa and HupT3, but not in the A549 cell line. However, knockdown of MAD2L1 resulted in lack of colony formation in MIA-PaCa2 cells in the absence of radiation treatment, indicating that this gene might be essential for cell proliferation. Knockdown of PLK4 only desensitized radiation response in HupT3 cells, consistent with the MTS assay results, and TTF1 knockdown did not alter radiation sensitivity in any of the four cell lines.

Since the rs4326096 and rs2409791 SNPs were close to DEPDC1B and also were associated with BORA expression, and since BORA knockdown altered radiation sensitivity with both MTS and colony-forming assays, studies were conducted to determine whether the influence of these two SNPs on BORA expression might be mediated through the regulation of DEPDC1B expression. An association analysis was performed for these SNPs using microarray data for DEPDC1B, and the result showed that both SNPs were also highly associated with DEPDC1B gene expression level (FIG. 10A). Furthermore, expression levels for BORA and DEPDC1B were significantly and positively correlated (FIG. 10B, R_(p)=0.516, p<0.0001), a relationship consistent with the results of the siRNA knockdown experiments. Finally to further characterize the relationship between DEPDC1B and BORA, siRNA knockdown of DEPDC1B was performed, followed by determination of BORA expression in HeLa and HupT3 cell lines (FIG. 10C), two cell lines that showed significant effects on radiation sensitivity after knockdown of both genes (FIG. 8). The results for HeLa cells showed that 24 hours after the knockdown of DEPDC1B, BORA expression decreased dramatically, while in HupT3 cells this effect was most prominent 48 hours after DEPDC1B knockdown.

TABLE 10 Candidate genes selected for siRNA screening Basis for Selection* Exp. SNP vs. vs. Integrated MTS Assays^(†) Colony-forming Assay^(†) ID Gene Symbol AUC^(¶) AUC^(§) Analysis^(‡) HupT3 HeLa MIAPaCa2 HupT3 HeLa A549 MIAPaCa2 1 BORA (C13orf34) Yes — Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 2 C19orf2 Yes — Yes — Yes — NP NP NP NP 3 CENPL Yes — Yes — — Yes NP NP NP NP 4 CTNNAL1 Yes — — — — — NP NP NP NP 5 DEPDC1B — Yes Yes — Yes — Yes Yes Yes Yes 6 FAM62B Yes — — — Yes — NP NP NP NP 7 JMJD2C — Yes Yes — — — NP NP NP NP 8 KBTBD2 Yes — — — — — NP NP NP NP 9 LDHA Yes — Yes — — — NP NP NP NP 10 MAD2L1 Yes — — Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes — NC 11 MTMR12 Yes — Yes — — — NP NP NP NP 12 NIBP (TRAPPC9) — Yes — — — — NP NP NP NP 13 NRF1 Yes — Yes Yes — — NP NP NP NP 14 PAWR Yes — Yes — — — NP NP NP NP 15 PLK4 Yes — — Yes Yes — Yes — — — 16 SR140 Yes — — — — — NP NP NP NP 17 STS Yes — — — — — NP NP NP NP 18 TDP1 Yes — — — — — NP NP NP NP 19 TMEM48 Yes — — — Yes — NP NP NP NP 20 TPD52 Yes — — Yes Yes — Yes Yes Yes Yes 21 TTF1 Yes — — Yes Yes — — — — — 22 UBE2D2 Yes — — — Yes — NP NP NP NP 23 PLEKHF2 — Yes Yes — — — NP NP NP NP *“Yes” indicates individual candidate genes with the p value listed ^(†)“Yes” indicates knockdown of the gene altered radiation cytotoxicity (AUC values) when compared with control siRNA ^(¶)P < 10⁻³; ^(§)P < 10⁻⁴; ^(‡)SNP vs Exp P < 10⁻⁴ and Exp vs AUC P < 10⁻³ “NP” = not performed; “NC” = no colonies formed for that cell line after knockdown with a specific siRNA

The analyses of SNP, basal gene expression, and radiation cytotoxicity (AUC) data yielded a total of 240 candidate genes, including 211 identified as a result of either expression vs AUC associations (p<10⁻³) or an “integrated analysis” that included SNP expression and radiation AUC data. In addition, 29 genes also were identified based on the association of SNPs with AUC (p<10⁻⁴). When Ingenuity Pathway analysis was performed for these 240 genes, the top three networks all involved “cell death” and centered around NFκB, PI3K/Akt and p38MAPK/ERK as “network hubs” (FIGS. 11A-11C). Many candidate genes identified during these studies have been reported to have altered levels of expression in response to radiation exposure in the NCI-60 cell lines or in lymphoblastoid cell lines, especially p53 dependent genes such as CDC2, PHLDA3 and PTPRC (Amundson et al. (1999) Oncogene 18:3666-3672; Amundson et al. (2005) Oncogene 24:4572-4579; Amundson et al. (2008) Cancer Res. 68:415-424; Amundson et al. (2003) Mol. Cancer Res. 1:445-452; and Jen and Cheung (2005) Cancer Res. 65:7666-7673). In addition, genes such as MEF2B, NRF1, PHPTJ, ZMAT3, CHEKJ, and GALR3 that are up- or down-regulated by ionizing radiation exposure, also were found to be associated with radiation AUC (Amundson et al. (2004) Cancer Res. 64:6368-6371; Dressman et al. (2007) PLoS Med. 4:e106; Jen and Cheung, supra; Paul and Amundson (2008) Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 71:1236-1244; Rzeszowska-Wolny et al. (2009) DNA Repair (Amst) 8:732-738; and Westbury et al. (2009) J. Pathol. 219:131-140. The correlation between basal gene expression and radiation cytotoxicity was of greater interest, however, because basal gene expression may eventually be more useful to help predict radiation sensitivity and resistance, while change in gene expression in response to radiation might be more closely related to downstream signaling events.

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It is to be understood that while the invention has been described in conjunction with the detailed description thereof, the foregoing description is intended to illustrate and not limit the scope of the invention, which is defined by the scope of the appended claims. Other aspects, advantages, and modifications are within the scope of the following claims. 

1. An in vitro method for predicting the effectiveness of radiation therapy in a subject, said method comprising: (a) providing a biological sample from the subject; (b) assaying the biological sample to determine whether it comprises a radiation therapy signature; and (c) classifying the subject as having a greater likelihood of responding to radiation therapy if the signature is present in the biological sample, and classifying the subject as having a lesser likelihood of responding to radiation therapy if the signature is not present in the biological sample.
 2. The method of claim 1, further comprising communicating to a medical professional information regarding whether or not the signature is present in the biological sample.
 3. The method of claim 2, further comprising communicating to a medical professional information indicating that the presence of the signature correlates with effectiveness of radiation therapy.
 4. The method of claim 1, wherein said radiation therapy signature comprises one or more markers selected from the group consisting of rs7000734, rs16885294, rs1561715, rs1610110, rs2859631, rs12569163, rs16889440, rs7554126, rs4742269, rs7591064, rs11250464, rs1853665, rs4392868, rs17598306, rs1471356, and rs4554799.
 5. The method of claim 1, wherein said radiation therapy signature comprises one or more markers selected from the group consisting of rs4392868, rs297550, rs1946944, rs12548426, rs1610110, rs1561715, rs1561714, rs4734298, rs7000734, and rs212551.
 6. The method of claim 1, wherein said radiation therapy signature comprises one or more markers selected from the group consisting of rs1610110, rs1561715, rs1561714, rs4392868, rs7000734, and rs212551.
 7. The method of claim 1, wherein said radiation therapy signature comprises one or more markers selected from the group consisting of rs6863920, rs6449478, rs2409791, rs4326096, rs206789, and rs286158.
 8. The method of claim 1, wherein said radiation therapy signature comprises one or more markers selected from the group consisting of rs4463400, rs6578080, rs4397386, rs7387053, rs4487737, rs13275618, rs6578083, rs7814976, rs7841539, rs6578084, and rs9324519.
 9. The method of claim 1, wherein said radiation therapy signature comprises one or more markers selected from the group consisting of rs12553351 and rs4742269.
 10. The method of claim 1, wherein said radiation therapy signature comprises rs1610110.
 11. The method of claim 1, wherein said radiation therapy signature comprises rs1561715.
 12. The method of claim 1, wherein said radiation therapy signature comprises rs7000734.
 13. An in vitro method for determining a dose of radiation for administration to a subject, said method comprising: (a) providing a biological sample from the subject; (b) assaying the biological sample to determine whether it comprises a radiation therapy signature; and (c) determining that the dose is lower if the signature is present in the biological sample than if the signature is not present in the biological sample, and determining that the dose is higher if the signature is not present in the biological sample than if the signature is present in the biological sample.
 14. The method of claim 13, further comprising communicating to a medical professional information regarding whether or not the signature is present in the biological sample.
 15. The method of claim 14, further comprising communicating to a medical professional information indicating that the presence of the signature correlates with a lower dose of radiation therapy.
 16. The method of claim 13, wherein said radiation therapy signature comprises one or more markers selected from the group consisting of rs7000734, rs16885294, rs1561715, rs1610110, rs2859631, rs12569163, rs16889440, rs7554126, rs4742269, rs7591064, rs11250464, rs1853665, rs4392868, rs17598306, rs1471356, and rs4554799.
 17. The method of claim 13, wherein said radiation therapy signature comprises one or more markers selected from the group consisting of rs4392868, rs297550, rs1946944, rs12548426, rs1610110, rs1561715, rs1561714, rs4734298, rs7000734, and rs212551.
 18. The method of claim 13, wherein said radiation therapy signature comprises one or more markers selected from the group consisting of rs1610110, rs1561715, rs1561714, rs4392868, rs7000734, and rs212551.
 19. The method of claim 13, wherein said radiation therapy signature comprises one or more markers selected from the group consisting of rs6863920, rs6449478, rs2409791, rs4326096, rs206789, and rs286158.
 20. The method of claim 13, wherein said radiation therapy signature comprises one or more markers selected from the group consisting of rs4463400, rs6578080, rs4397386, rs7387053, rs4487737, rs13275618, rs6578083, rs7814976, rs7841539, rs6578084, and rs9324519.
 21. The method of claim 13, wherein said radiation therapy signature comprises one or more markers selected from the group consisting of rs12553351 and rs4742269.
 22. The method of claim 13, wherein said radiation therapy signature comprises rs1610110.
 23. The method of claim 13, wherein said radiation therapy signature comprises rs1561715.
 24. The method of claim 13, wherein said radiation therapy signature comprises rs7000734. 